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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             November 19, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
                                          |         Preliminary 10/2009 Data        |
                                          |            By Merged-Category           |
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(P)  These data are limited preliminary import data based on import figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
It will be supplanted by official imports from the Census Bureau as those data become available.  The release of these data 
is to allow preliminary analysis of the impact of total imports into the United States and imports from China into the 
United States to facilitate the administration of the textile safeguard in China's WTO Accession Agreement.

Because this report contains data for HTS Chapters 50-63 only, the following categories may be incomplete or not 
appear at all:  201, 229, 239, 359, 362, 369, 439, 459, 469, 621, 622, 659, 666, 669, 670, 859, 870, 871 and 899.


                                           Category 352/652 :  UNDERWEAR
                                                 Data in Doz

                Calendar Years               Year-to-Date              Year-Endings                                YE 10/2009
   Country      2007       2008      10/2008    10/2009  % Change     10/2008     8/2009     9/2009    10/2009 % Change % Share

                                                   (P)                                                  (P)


 O  WORLD    259098183 272594559   230032017  191164480    -16.90  270050934  243348120  239679321  233727022    -13.45  100.00

 O  HONDURA   40877111  45409237    38427497   25593012    -33.40   45775652   35281730   33926263   32574752    -28.84   13.94

 O  CHINA P   23105673  22481573    18600173   28224449     51.74   21168130   30688688   31799928   32105849     51.67   13.74

 O  SALVADR   38873940  39737060    35292276   19985572    -43.37   41481784   27696721   26233090   24430356    -41.11   10.45

 O  BNGLDSH   18668485  21662272    18233755   15975108    -12.39   20654505   20377959   19791999   19403625     -6.06    8.30

 O  INDIA     12096100  17721692    14053015   15176895      8.00   16178917   19252422   19323060   18845572     16.48    8.06

 O  THAILND   15769685  16806723    13761506   13915754      1.12   16162271   16955312   16961295   16960971      4.94    7.26

 O  VIETNAM    2675068   7028007     4759906   11831724    148.57    5341714   13259454   13634372   14099825    163.96    6.03

 O  DOM REP   13738654  14328987    11934289    9452446    -20.80   13973585   12708494   12312023   11847144    -15.22    5.07

 O  SRI LKA    8977311  10191299     8353440    7358985    -11.90    9716051    9365899    9599520    9196844     -5.34    3.93

 O  HAITI      5984406   7750265     6518002    6859644      5.24    7305437    8219968    8134414    8091907     10.77    3.46

 O  CAMBOD     5134447   7743436     6570224    4685330    -28.69    7419172    6473635    6295760    5858542    -21.04    2.51

 O  C RICA    18742563  11821409    10809571    4715120    -56.38   13326760    6077213    5829713    5726958    -57.03    2.45

 O  PAKISTN    4670289   4995915     4136859    3482151    -15.83    5086452    4485406    4587082    4341207    -14.65    1.86

 O  PHIL R     4635307   4169795     3931942    3165351    -19.50    4597279    3320196    3282947    3403204    -25.97    1.46

 O  MEXICO     5568176   3782063     3353766    2856910    -14.81    4123227    3144601    3190137    3285207    -20.32    1.41


 O  _CBI     121954013 123231169   106593647   69442329    -34.85  125977211   93411615   89879616   86079851    -31.67   36.83

 O  _CAFTA   114047698 114471115    99196409   62522308    -36.97  117618301   84824519   81480219   77797014    -33.86   33.29

 O  _ASEAN    37815919  47410542    38768436   38881404      0.29   45079405   48050423   47777918   47523510      5.42   20.33

 O  _ANDEAN    1141717   1263985     1056156     901987    -14.60    1236652    1114739    1089339    1109816    -10.26    0.47

 O  _SUB-SAHA   171922     83747       50499     130149    157.73      51008     161776     164973     163397    220.34    0.07