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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                              November 5, 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  147070596     -0.37 174817014  173860738  173359894  172957942      -1.06  100.00

 HONDURA       30373591  38995042   32699350   39617766     21.16  38909455   45076254   45570491   45913458      18.00   26.55

 PAKISTN       43657788  42576345   35401224   34204494     -3.38  41818976   42640684   42428399   41379615      -1.05   23.92

 CHINA P       21347510  23031032   20694670   22850923     10.42  23561211   23367063   24153395   25187285       6.90   14.56

 MEXICO        17326895  16896035   14160252   15395515      8.72  16678242   18110301   18127400   18131298       8.71   10.48

 C RICA        11884116  12610245   10958309    7891227    -27.99  13065829   10286339    9863008    9543163     -26.96    5.52

 KOR REP       15028589  12338853   10577133    7649427    -27.68  12849943   10351358    9584706    9411147     -26.76    5.44

 SALVADR            237    316891          0    7644331       *           0    5830144    6767577    7961222        *      4.60

 CHINA T        3103940   3694201    3125373    2574802    -17.62   3616329    3283181    3234279    3143630     -13.07    1.82

 DOM REP       14671901  11521826   10338791    1840225    -82.20  12270256    4765763    3820759    3023260     -75.36    1.75

 CAMBOD         1280956    854911     656545    1786150    172.05    871120    1927130    1937840    1984516     127.81    1.15

 TURKEY         2862927   1518769    1330971     813358    -38.89   1758388    1109822    1085010    1001156     -43.06    0.58

 COLOMB         2859595   1927072    1695388     705452    -58.39   1981354     979742    1006597     937136     -52.70    0.54

 VIETNAM          93091   1110734     870688     523480    -39.88    872209     976780     868445     763526     -12.46    0.44

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

 HG KONG         272421    332233     216505     523097    141.61    277470     642114     653071     638825     130.23    0.37


 _CBI          57335570  64205502   54656551   57387767      5.00  64981241   66606472   66592088   66936718       3.01   38.70

 _CAFTA        57315435  64198956   54650033   57387760      5.01  64974723   66606444   66592060   66936683       3.02   38.70

 _ASEAN         4913815   5712369    4647165    3897498    -16.13   5674770    5527057    5230224    4962702     -12.55    2.87

 _ANDEAN        2953971   2037988    1790216     933251    -47.87   2089365    1156951    1253526    1181023     -43.47    0.68