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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 645/646 :  M-MF SWEATERS
                                            Data in Doz , 30.80 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      6692594   5025900     4520993    4077831     -9.80    5048842    4865387    4880616    4582738     -9.23  100.00

 O  CHINA P    3355280   2283387     2066424    2494053     20.69    2261106    2520392    2713213    2711016     19.90   59.16

 O  BNGLDSH    1311386   1261091     1150200     840316    -26.94    1207289    1154607    1083695     951207    -21.21   20.76

 O  INDNSIA     414838    263293      219527     162821    -25.83     241324     228744     226410     206587    -14.39    4.51

 O  JORDAN       77668    159031      154992     112754    -27.25     166664      79520      98664     116793    -29.92    2.55

 O  CHINA T     308327    180803      155811      72831    -53.26     201459     146975     129324      97823    -51.44    2.13

 O  GUATMAL      79242     59921       59463      67765     13.96      73665      59173      60190      68223     -7.39    1.49

 O  SALVADR      62346     71513       58228      51433    -11.67      72886      70783      65035      64718    -11.21    1.41

 O  MEXICO       76802     69269       58734      53511     -8.89      70530      58568      60524      64046     -9.19    1.40

 O  EGYPT        18816     21539       18709      58219    211.18      19885      21463      30612      61049    207.01    1.33

 O  HG KONG     470597    372154      324179       6840    -97.89     406778     271559     190605      54815    -86.52    1.20

 O  VIETNAM      96410     30396       23077      26374     14.29      42063      33632      36005      33693    -19.90    0.74

 O  THAILND      66688     58127       55394      17884    -67.71      59562      43684      26215      20617    -65.39    0.45


 O  _ASEAN      668538    402756      344104     233528    -32.13     395666     361844     332361     292180    -26.15    6.38

 O  _CBI        142439    133541      118635     120665      1.71     148120     132717     128017     135571     -8.47    2.96

 O  _CAFTA      142374    133308      118420     120650      1.88     147905     132684     127984     135538     -8.36    2.96