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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                  July 2, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |  By Category,  Preliminary  6/2009 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  6/2009
 Country        2007       2008       6/2008     6/2009  % Change    6/2008     4/2009     5/2009     6/2009   % Change % Share

                                                   (P)                                       (P)        (P)

 WORLD        171596459 173499412   85007424   86852657      2.17 173678907  173699792  174738576  175344645       0.96  100.00

 PAKISTN       43657788  42576345   20532009   22469839      9.44  41935870   43619351   44336515   44514175       6.15   25.39

 HONDURA       30373591  38995042   19126113   22772824     19.07  37408760   40429644   41814696   42641753      13.99   24.32

 CHINA P       21347510  23031032   11846229   12176130      2.78  22680900   22929921   23460792   23360933       3.00   13.32

 MEXICO        17326895  16896035    8185713    8842749      8.03  16628535   17627634   17583086   17553071       5.56   10.01

 C RICA        11884116  12610245    6584346    5305394    -19.42  12787452   12118252   11565377   11331293     -11.39    6.46

 KOR REP       15028589  12338853    5432620    4297135    -20.90  12802003   11445174   11051961   11203368     -12.49    6.39

 DOM REP       14671901  11521826    6355794    1758264    -72.34  13449439    9157681    8023664    6924296     -48.52    3.95

 SALVADR            237    316891          0    3443207       *         122    2241849    2982395    3760098    3081948    2.14

 CHINA T        3103940   3694201    1595270    1341645    -15.90   3261540    3422362    3472851    3440576       5.49    1.96

 CAMBOD         1280956    854911     308343    1076043    248.98    941552    1120044    1271661    1622611      72.33    0.93

 TURKEY         2862927   1518769     849764     554350    -34.76   2096588    1322022    1229241    1223355     -41.65    0.70

 COLOMB         2859595   1927072    1128757     326244    -71.10   2671305    1336671    1180703    1124559     -57.90    0.64

 VIETNAM          93091   1110734     378254     326177    -13.77    464581    1159286    1070231    1058657     127.87    0.60

 INDNSIA         876472   1102942     439929     329884    -25.01    791792    1179452    1136132     992897      25.40    0.57

 MALAYSA        1548791   1577070     790121     187162    -76.31   2033590    1021117     991575     974111     -52.10    0.56


 _CBI          57335570  64205502   32234304   33586767      4.20  63990328   64864095   65289628   65557965       2.45   37.39

 _CAFTA        57315435  64198956   32230804   33586767      4.21  63986768   64861049   65286582   65554919       2.45   37.39

 _ASEAN         4913815   5712369    2441108    2392299     -2.00   5300946    5583707    5537010    5663560       6.84    3.23

 _ANDEAN        2953971   2037988    1181572     381946    -67.67   2770062    1426794    1277927    1238362     -55.29    0.71

 _SUB-SAHARA     586479     21705      19662        628    -96.81    234694       7287       7124       2671     -98.86    0.00