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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 334/634 :  COATS
                                            Data in Doz , 34.50 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     19807263  22544441    19440652   18343389     -5.64   22289839   21515959   21453624   21447178     -3.78  100.00

 O  CHINA P    9466103  12185357    10573187    9942265     -5.97   11962189   11647814   11600626   11554435     -3.41   53.87

 O  VIETNAM    2130475   2460435     2074261    1889282     -8.92    2380306    2264392    2272126    2275456     -4.40   10.61

 O  PAKISTN    1057175   1291215     1092271    1187552      8.72    1234336    1366104    1342782    1386496     12.33    6.46

 O  BNGLDSH    1476263   1387076     1209608    1193631     -1.32    1392801    1325530    1320473    1371099     -1.56    6.39

 O  INDNSIA     746249    684652      574654     591291      2.90     657781     720528     728102     701289      6.61    3.27

 O  HONDURA     226466    307670      232927     573426    146.18     261994     531124     584485     648169    147.40    3.02

 O  MEXICO      747781    769700      660531     511867    -22.51     782829     623853     636234     621036    -20.67    2.90

 O  CAMBOD      326817    484314      419849     342680    -18.38     465911     429871     408777     407145    -12.61    1.90

 O  THAILND     353800    290327      258140     233200     -9.66     295363     258828     266374     265387    -10.15    1.24

 O  INDIA       256189    334612      287770     215935    -24.96     325301     297145     283472     262777    -19.22    1.23

 O  SRI LKA     506952    346169      307493     219582    -28.59     382127     278372     271098     258258    -32.42    1.20

 O  SALVADR     318212    322572      287233     201450    -29.87     351322     251473     233950     236789    -32.60    1.10

 O  PHIL R      384309    264906      245698     203739    -17.08     286928     240316     227673     222947    -22.30    1.04

 O  MALAYSA     193829    140193      117380     155138     32.17     138351     157593     168667     177951     28.62    0.83

 O  JORDAN      228458    167839      145912     109415    -25.01     173352     144410     130770     131342    -24.23    0.61


 O  _ASEAN     4143353   4331451     3696336    3421986     -7.42    4231858    4077066    4078100    4057101     -4.13   18.92

 O  _CBI        821685    782098      641785     997431     55.42     813044    1006047    1070560    1137744     39.94    5.30

 O  _CAFTA      722744    692097      568811     967308     70.06     711520     944774    1014388    1090594     53.28    5.09

 O  _SUB-SAHA   102135    122931       99722      75267    -24.52     132323     125832     119266      98476    -25.58    0.46