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| PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | November 6, 2008
| HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! |
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| By Category, Preliminary 10/2008 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.
Category 642: MMF SKIRTS
Data in Doz., 14.90 M2 per Doz .
Calendar Years Year-to-Date Year-Endings YE 10/2008
Country 2006 2007 10/2007 10/2008 % Change 10/2007 8/2008 9/2008 10/2008 % Change % Share
(P) (P)
WORLD 8409364 7196283 6429097 4665204 -27.44 7394869 5610448 5523966 5432390 -26.54 100.00
CHINA P 3202076 3142370 2818577 1971403 -30.06 3195862 2370089 2327875 2295196 -28.18 42.25
INDNSIA 907856 881981 786802 645084 -18.01 909307 729326 738069 740263 -18.59 13.63
VIETNAM 341343 599270 513929 573119 11.52 541263 640347 650791 658460 21.65 12.12
GUATMAL 480060 282144 256779 203890 -20.60 309713 246126 240720 229255 -25.98 4.22
INDIA 766214 424170 389042 180432 -53.62 473055 224662 218966 215560 -54.43 3.97
MEXICO 460045 226348 212989 153312 -28.02 233293 182301 177557 166671 -28.56 3.07
CHINA T 264128 195614 175268 122388 -30.17 211312 150519 146477 142734 -32.45 2.63
CAMBOD 235897 300017 266874 96749 -63.75 308397 146889 138311 129892 -57.88 2.39
PHIL R 352029 222620 202625 108582 -46.41 255398 152955 146035 128577 -49.66 2.37
JORDAN 70412 95978 79674 80720 1.31 84352 96576 95438 97024 15.02 1.79
SRI LKA 198745 91274 80626 68851 -14.60 109730 79824 79633 79499 -27.55 1.46
BNGLDSH 151151 65287 55566 67622 21.70 80182 72826 76167 77343 -3.54 1.42
THAILND 101967 101180 93845 53588 -42.90 103539 65584 64041 60923 -41.16 1.12
MALAYSA 63944 79241 65737 37942 -42.28 73607 55022 54511 51446 -30.11 0.95
CANADA 127492 85417 77874 36471 -53.17 88237 55564 49633 44014 -50.12 0.81
_ASEAN 2007188 2192866 1938324 1528396 -21.15 2200023 1803856 1805171 1782938 -18.96 32.82
_CBI 677022 408514 372954 277613 -25.56 450670 330854 323716 313173 -30.51 5.76
_CAFTA 675517 407123 371740 276041 -25.74 449185 329138 322013 311424 -30.67 5.73
_SUB-SAHARA 86469 59332 41855 31774 -24.09 51724 61876 47970 49251 -4.78 0.91