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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 638/639 :  M-MF KNIT SHIRTS
                                                 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     86673851  91562277    78588047   71345580     -9.22   91474901   86252494   85372095   84319810     -7.82  100.00

 O  CHINA P   16458630  14373457    12239389   18931137     54.67   13998599   19521472   20469638   21065205     50.48   24.98

 O  VIETNAM    4085174   7140490     6069813    7343339     20.98    6928083    8021674    8129174    8414016     21.45    9.98

 O  HONDURA    9927348  12450252    10684508    5735169    -46.32   12687685    8471914    8114824    7500913    -40.88    8.90

 O  MEXICO     8402069   8106724     7108526    5314755    -25.23    8434524    6565459    6401184    6312953    -25.15    7.49

 O  SALVADR    5662445   7262965     6064312    4643320    -23.43    7246356    6529286    6244479    5841973    -19.38    6.93

 O  NICARAG    1217539   4314022     3390429    4107560     21.15    3636842    5422451    5248442    5031153     38.34    5.97

 O  INDNSIA    4270412   4828084     4289663    4450381      3.75    4906362    4912161    4868962    4988802      1.68    5.92

 O  JORDAN     2943679   3271709     2857332    2382507    -16.62    3220769    2859186    2945403    2796884    -13.16    3.32

 O  CAMBOD     3161763   3553377     3153032    2236677    -29.06    3550159    2868327    2761013    2637022    -25.72    3.13

 O  GUATMAL    2139477   2196128     1877081    1930950      2.87    2240285    2191428    2165565    2249997      0.43    2.67

 O  PHIL R     2358263   2242810     1902791    1652648    -13.15    2290861    2014989    1988331    1992667    -13.02    2.36

 O  THAILND    2243974   2463138     2073816    1431858    -30.96    2457571    1915009    1863617    1821180    -25.90    2.16

 O  CHINA T    2544429   1985473     1707271    1387585    -18.72    2015435    1723355    1702866    1665787    -17.35    1.98

 O  EGYPT      1114410   1362008     1195042    1122901     -6.04    1347699    1457648    1324011    1289867     -4.29    1.53

 O  HAITI      5441957   1861962     1638528     910482    -44.43    2201195    1113033    1102277    1133916    -48.49    1.34


 O  _CBI      25627454  30332408    25718108   18137430    -29.48   30276035   24844500   23928890   22751730    -24.85   26.98

 O  _CAFTA    20127577  28459547    24069527   17214091    -28.48   28056710   23717791   22813019   21604111    -23.00   25.62

 O  _ASEAN    17333027  21498286    18562424   17782490     -4.20   21418144   20622734   20482196   20718352     -3.27   24.57

 O  _SUB-SAHA  2180110   2571285     2053924    2368376     15.31    2432613    2951681    2903949    2885737     18.63    3.42

 O  _ANDEAN     682411    697844      581111     562597     -3.19     654252     706166     697137     679330      3.83    0.81