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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 645: M/B MMF SWEATERS
Data in Doz., 30.80 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 801427 615761 581387 301387 -48.16 646133 437546 385094 335761 -48.04 100.00
CHINA P 215138 237955 227168 86699 -61.83 247909 170823 128415 97486 -60.68 29.03
BNGLDSH 187688 170274 166653 90356 -45.78 178245 122845 110685 93977 -47.28 27.99
INDNSIA 63807 20514 19858 29735 49.74 22822 25409 27824 30391 33.17 9.05
MEXICO 20862 22024 15991 21215 32.67 19474 27713 27567 27248 39.92 8.12
JORDAN 3268 2714 2714 18220 571.33 4444 3528 12780 18220 309.99 5.43
ISRAEL 10105 34063 27822 4727 -83.01 29469 18725 16442 10968 -62.78 3.27
EGYPT 3305 7520 7520 9477 26.02 7698 3185 8147 9477 23.11 2.82
CHINA T 92055 19435 18094 6717 -62.88 21719 14160 9342 8058 -62.90 2.40
VIETNAM 6376 7443 5220 2146 -58.89 10198 7163 4596 4369 -57.16 1.30
INDIA 15789 6652 5933 3268 -44.92 9189 5162 4678 3987 -56.61 1.19
CANADA 7542 6600 5114 1612 -68.48 7116 3976 3666 3098 -56.46 0.92
SALVADR 9067 10778 10622 2790 -73.73 14766 6142 4164 2946 -80.05 0.88
PHIL R 13421 6017 6017 2906 -51.70 6273 3728 2627 2906 -53.67 0.87
CAMBOD 6916 6877 6877 60 -99.13 6877 1209 458 60 -99.13 0.02
MAURIT 1 0 0 * * 0 * * * * *
_ASEAN 95368 46234 43135 38279 -11.26 52460 41367 39404 41378 -21.12 12.32
_SUB-SAHARA 1288 35329 35329 3539 -89.98 35329 3212 3209 3539 -89.98 1.05
_CBI 11370 10894 10732 3140 -70.74 15216 6405 4519 3302 -78.30 0.98
_CAFTA 11312 10859 10697 3079 -71.22 15181 6344 4458 3241 -78.65 0.97