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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 349/649 :  BRASSIERES
                                            Data in Doz ,  4.00 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     49266437  49612424    41555340   41944763      0.94   49919666   49734501   50313586   50001847      0.16  100.00

 SL CHINA P   18846132  22684403    18677771   20574865     10.16   22949835   24543126   24910779   24581497      7.11   49.16

 O  INDNSIA    6347869   6162869     5322777    4325538    -18.74    6054820    5220014    5239182    5165630    -14.69   10.33

 O  THAILND    4455916   4498401     3772108    4200759     11.36    4345143    4741511    4876113    4927052     13.39    9.85

 O  BNGLDSH    2134817   2522910     2188520    2442353     11.60    2466076    2543439    2626066    2776743     12.60    5.55

 O  HONDURA    2397570   2237346     1842496    1820926     -1.17    2255788    2207683    2212331    2215776     -1.77    4.43

 O  DOM REP    2649150   1808744     1594107    1186002    -25.60    2051431    1342201    1362414    1400639    -31.72    2.80

 O  SRI LKA    1420979   1345705     1138748    1192448      4.72    1379894    1296755    1365113    1399405      1.41    2.80

 O  MEXICO     2001954   1597450     1356686     980318    -27.74    1626480    1365810    1290176    1221082    -24.92    2.44

 O  SALVADR     576144    882266      698832     830691     18.87     844464     996152     988438    1014125     20.09    2.03

 O  NICARAG     977533    730399      598951     568341     -5.11     737438     705358     707393     699789     -5.11    1.40

 O  MALAYSA    1091513    722903      587921     538541     -8.40     712630     685936     717927     673523     -5.49    1.35

 O  PHIL R     1613863    796449      694813     540483    -22.21     836150     670518     646802     642119    -23.21    1.28

 O  FRANCE      103129    541044      490334     533192      8.74     502584     647102     599782     583902     16.18    1.17

 O  C RICA      624326    633583      525487     433040    -17.59     629210     561433     549830     541136    -14.00    1.08

 O  INDIA       496142    538600      449182     397177    -11.58     530832     477065     504873     486595     -8.33    0.97


 O  _ASEAN    13869190  12473872    10611165    9861192     -7.07   12258558   11614282   11794436   11723899     -4.36   23.45

 O  _CBI       7407897   6334729     5296157    4878376     -7.89    6558234    5864812    5867911    5916948     -9.78   11.83

 O  _CAFTA     7386364   6302394     5268064    4847143     -7.99    6527566    5825123    5830957    5881473     -9.90   11.76