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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