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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             November 19, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |  By Category,  Preliminary 10/2009 Data |
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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 332:  COTTON HOSIERY
                     Data in Dpr.,  3.80 M2 per Dpr . 

                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)

 WORLD        171596459 173499412  147612066  147596682     -0.01 174817014  174222454  173905365  173484028      -0.76  100.00

 HONDURA       30373591  38995042   32699350   39565431     21.00  38909455   45076254   45518156   45861123      17.87   26.44

 PAKISTN       43657788  42576345   35401224   34314868     -3.07  41818976   42653716   42547593   41489989      -0.79   23.92

 CHINA P       21347510  23031032   20694670   23250633     12.35  23561211   23635141   24553105   25586995       8.60   14.75

 MEXICO        17326895  16896035   14160252   15354988      8.44  16678242   18110301   18093459   18090771       8.47   10.43

 C RICA        11884116  12610245   10958309    7953426    -27.42  13065829   10286339    9925207    9605362     -26.48    5.54

 KOR REP       15028589  12338853   10577133    7756519    -26.67  12849943   10391599    9691965    9518239     -25.93    5.49

 SALVADR            237    316891          0    7568149       *           0    5830144    6691395    7885040        *      4.55

 CHINA T        3103940   3694201    3125373    2552873    -18.32   3616329    3283181    3216158    3121701     -13.68    1.80

 DOM REP       14671901  11521826   10338791    1840225    -82.20  12270256    4765763    3820759    3023260     -75.36    1.74

 CAMBOD         1280956    854911     656545    1786150    172.05    871120    1927130    1937840    1984516     127.81    1.14

 TURKEY         2862927   1518769    1330971     815256    -38.75   1758388    1109822    1086908    1003054     -42.96    0.58

 COLOMB         2859595   1927072    1695388     691116    -59.24   1981354     979742     992261     922800     -53.43    0.53

 VIETNAM          93091   1110734     870688     523742    -39.85    872209     976780     868707     763788     -12.43    0.44

 MALAYSA        1548791   1577070    1226761     357245    -70.88   1734094     955470     880401     707554     -59.20    0.41

 HG KONG         272421    332233     216505     523095    141.61    277470     642114     653070     638823     130.23    0.37


 _CBI          57335570  64205502   54656551   57321446      4.88  64981241   66606472   66525767   66870397       2.91   38.55

 _CAFTA        57315435  64198956   54650033   57321439      4.89  64974723   66606444   66525739   66870362       2.92   38.55

 _ASEAN         4913815   5712369    4647165    3943087    -15.15   5674770    5567422    5275813    5008291     -11.74    2.89

 _ANDEAN        2953971   2037988    1790216     918604    -48.69   2089365    1156951    1238879    1166376     -44.18    0.67