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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
                                          |         Preliminary 10/2008 Data        |
                                          |            By Merged-Category           |
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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 331/631 :  GLOVES & MITTENS
                                            Data in Doz ,  2.90 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)


 O  WORLD     78937863  83080211    69005673   67870759     -1.64   80993473   80391836   80835526   81945297      1.18  100.00

 O  CHINA P   47254075  53259915    44528234   43673965     -1.92   51483051   51515125   51913328   52405646      1.79   63.95

 P  PAKISTN    4546045   4794660     3867631    4500014     16.35    4862161    5218050    5211524    5427043     11.62    6.62

 O  MEXICO     6427789   5714422     4771572    4242219    -11.09    5642101    5315823    5234010    5185069     -8.10    6.33

 P  INDNSIA    3689201   3660571     3010405    2948584     -2.05    3769635    3682528    3685210    3598750     -4.53    4.39

 O  KOR REP    3426439   3235752     2618832    2761799      5.46    3221345    3021384    3016203    3378719      4.89    4.12

 O  PHIL R     4047297   3601511     3137175    2595113    -17.28    3674498    3165157    3209982    3059449    -16.74    3.73

 O  CHINA T    2308711   2141325     1539949    1486749     -3.45    1731322    2049997    2053476    2088125     20.61    2.55

 O  SRI LKA    1813418   1630767     1326085    1575194     18.79    1654068    1836175    1858448    1879876     13.65    2.29

 O  BNGLDSH    1045947    796337      618452     947515     53.21     804316     832576    1002399    1125400     39.92    1.37

 O  MALAYSA     798469    810890      677065     797719     17.82     752157     878290     845602     931544     23.85    1.14

 O  THAILND     998206    946950      746217     570435    -23.56     890270     823337     754619     771168    -13.38    0.94

 O  VIETNAM     474229    619471      509096     549381      7.91     563910     673269     669428     659756     17.00    0.81

 O  HG KONG     621349    410832      385693     350073     -9.24     489580     273516     328884     375212    -23.36    0.46

 O  HONDURA     473057    542489      503766     267086    -46.98     604096     362447     327862     305809    -49.38    0.37

 O  INDIA       345517    457303      373923     203034    -45.70     385730     275946     282773     286414    -25.75    0.35


 O  _ASEAN    10146515   9723293     8157458    7543657     -7.52    9731570    9314206    9250566    9109492     -6.39   11.12

 O  _CBI        702807    723775      666321     444703    -33.26     811637     540539     501155     502157    -38.13    0.61

 O  _CAFTA      595936    634280      587392     364196    -38.00     710462     471154     435863     411084    -42.14    0.50