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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                              November 6, 2008
                                          |         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 352/652 :  UNDERWEAR
                                                 Data in 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    271914848 259098183   219079266  231591208      5.71  264481078  262867968  266255882  271610125      2.70  100.00

 O  HONDURA   38743047  40877111    33528956   38469508     14.74   39691044   44201680   45062309   45817663     15.44   16.87

 O  SALVADR   34366756  38873940    32684432   35375315      8.23   38091700   41066803   41282998   41564823      9.12   15.30

 SL CHINA P   13685772  23105673    20537716   18613142     -9.37   25511808   19453570   20101824   21181099    -16.98    7.80

 O  BNGLDSH   17086564  18668485    16247735   18523736     14.01   18850321   19552787   20151823   20944486     11.11    7.71

 O  INDIA     10334027  12096100     9970198   14761929     48.06   11587450   14847136   15669391   16887831     45.74    6.22

 O  THAILND   16897930  15769685    13368920   13748818      2.84   16055255   15713818   16000597   16149583      0.59    5.95

 O  DOM REP   23810937  13738654    11699358   11914627      1.84   15424503   13536698   13760942   13953923     -9.53    5.14

 O  C RICA    20449280  18742563    16225374   10758118    -33.70   19990627   14772752   14119078   13275307    -33.59    4.89

 O  SRI LKA   10180940   8977311     7614700    8404519     10.37    9896484    9016823    9038111    9767130     -1.31    3.60

 O  CAMBOD     5267903   5134447     4285499    6579952     53.54    5147135    6938708    7240891    7428900     44.33    2.74

 O  HAITI      8084330   5984406     5196971    6552208     26.08    6596181    6722958    7082816    7339643     11.27    2.70

 O  MACAU      8619276   7494010     6376566    5144913    -19.32    7571859    6065280    6077367    6262357    -17.29    2.31

 O  VIETNAM    2364444   2675068     2093260    4903265    134.24    2343959    3864686    4530376    5485073    134.01    2.02

 O  MALAYSA    5162911   4544934     3516793    4440573     26.27    4217894    5420853    5345526    5468714     29.66    2.01

 O  PAKISTN    4337901   4670289     3720696    4209056     13.13    4368164    5151527    5035047    5158649     18.10    1.90


 O  _CBI     129547466 121954013   102570449  106711783      4.04  123680404  124269792  125404088  126095347      1.95   46.43

 O  _CAFTA   119163867 114047698    95625806   99280220      3.82  114961342  116401204  117221695  117702112      2.38   43.33

 O  _ASEAN    42594091  37815919    31504950   39060945     23.98   37509851   43032822   44071271   45371914     20.96   16.70

 O  _ANDEAN    1873332   1141717      961221    1057469     10.01    1302985    1224311    1254985    1237965     -4.99    0.46

 O  _SUB-SAHA   224615    171922      171413      64063    -62.63     199949      61792      62188      64572    -67.71    0.02