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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 644: W/G MMF SUITS
Data in Nos., 3.76 M2 per Nos .
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 17429612 14580600 12565240 9547811 -24.01 15491180 11680606 11599908 11563171 -25.36 100.00
CHINA P 9812342 8738944 7519135 5080872 -32.43 8995806 6646088 6426352 6300681 -29.96 54.49
VIETNAM 5479796 4829066 4154648 3798068 -8.58 5319354 4235615 4405754 4472486 -15.92 38.68
SRI LKA 685466 243491 218004 171247 -21.45 355047 231334 206074 196734 -44.59 1.70
CAMBOD 171145 21709 12782 150076 1074.12 12782 142523 139868 159003 1143.96 1.38
THAILND 528936 326395 296512 106638 -64.04 324648 140209 146811 136521 -57.95 1.18
INDNSIA 354341 125193 109142 60967 -44.14 138639 85967 78900 77018 -44.45 0.67
PHIL R 66739 72281 72281 66620 -7.83 91298 67380 63462 66620 -27.03 0.58
HG KONG 50969 58063 53721 19732 -63.27 67897 27791 25669 24074 -64.54 0.21
GUATMAL 5440 6 6 23251 387416.7 6 11376 17908 23251 387416.7 0.20
INDIA 52944 15864 10916 17424 59.62 15083 17477 16411 22372 48.33 0.19
JORDAN 376 513 513 20624 3920.27 513 291 146 20624 3920.27 0.18
PAKISTN 10423 25997 9077 2974 -67.24 18822 25608 27756 19894 5.70 0.17
ITALY 12870 11034 8875 6980 -21.35 12662 9576 9546 9139 -27.82 0.08
ROMANIA 1236 2809 2786 7547 170.89 2786 7505 7501 7570 171.72 0.07
MACAU 650 1803 0 4778 * 0 6581 6581 6581 * 0.06
_ASEAN 6641837 5375504 4646225 4182411 -9.98 5890157 4671736 4834837 4911690 -16.61 42.48
_CBI 5502 2376 10 23303 232930.0 10 13791 20325 25669 256590.0 0.22
_CAFTA 5502 2376 10 23302 232920.0 10 13790 20324 25668 256580.0 0.22
_SUB-SAHARA 8270 35996 35996 114 -99.68 36000 114 114 114 -99.68 0.00