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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