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| PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |
| 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 445/446 : WOOL SWEATERS
Data in Doz , 12.40 M2 per 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 3556837 3029608 2720430 1954524 -28.15 3157802 2779267 2554928 2263702 -28.31 100.00
O CHINA P 2966169 2625620 2377976 1725173 -27.45 2739454 2425787 2214525 1972817 -27.99 87.15
O ITALY 118157 96142 85578 58079 -32.13 99392 80680 75518 68643 -30.94 3.03
O BNGLDSH 74012 37136 31157 30521 -2.04 33286 31617 36670 36500 9.66 1.61
O HG KONG 153141 79897 72086 17539 -75.67 97301 58249 50427 25350 -73.95 1.12
O INDNSIA 13220 29192 18469 13408 -27.40 18843 32040 32501 24131 28.06 1.07
O CHINA T 10596 10977 10061 16583 64.82 10826 18514 21371 17499 61.64 0.77
O MADAGAS 22661 18370 14130 13244 -6.27 18476 20308 17866 17484 -5.37 0.77
O U KING 22105 14662 13148 12654 -3.76 15769 14604 14074 14168 -10.15 0.63
O PERU 17655 13345 10752 8020 -25.41 13931 11547 11050 10613 -23.82 0.47
O IRELAND 16767 12802 12060 7024 -41.76 13291 6328 7957 7766 -41.57 0.34
O THAILND 49544 13287 8937 2767 -69.04 20656 14143 9767 7117 -65.55 0.31
O _ASEAN 67540 55025 35696 24025 -32.70 48354 58091 53320 43354 -10.34 1.92
O _ANDEAN 36781 26672 21492 16352 -23.91 27868 25002 23931 21532 -22.73 0.95
O _SUB-SAHA 23429 18746 14406 14260 -1.01 19005 21070 18937 18600 -2.13 0.82