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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 647/648 :  M-MF TROUSERS
                                            Data in Doz , 14.90 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     60769289  60154877    51739002   47312097     -8.56   61450928   55700885   55737379   55727972     -9.31  100.00

 SL CHINA P    6587088   9490849     8445618    7525408    -10.90   10138682    7899790    8122691    8570639    -15.47   15.38

 O  INDNSIA    6896422   6426098     5510839    5076264     -7.89    6650316    6133976    6091922    5991523     -9.91   10.75

 O  VIETNAM    2627363   4492126     3718518    4828738     29.86    3777155    5441726    5547004    5602346     48.32   10.05

 O  MEXICO     7035334   5737443     5011666    3641119    -27.35    5974859    4709050    4553051    4366896    -26.91    7.84

 O  BNGLDSH    4246680   3672998     3142315    3355778      6.79    3882749    3744401    3813510    3886461      0.10    6.97

 O  HONDURA    1930596   2782588     2311448    2745654     18.79    2648450    2967718    3086246    3216794     21.46    5.77

 O  THAILND    2728788   2737322     2359000    2120354    -10.12    2795806    2576989    2564029    2498676    -10.63    4.48

 O  GUATMAL    3077227   2544390     2187118    2073642     -5.19    2654181    2391431    2423581    2430914     -8.41    4.36

 O  CAMBOD     2041203   2430119     1978209    1948277     -1.51    2334827    2518768    2444808    2400187      2.80    4.31

 O  SALVADR    2007064   2431043     2061205    1603321    -22.21    2518728    2026889    1978089    1973159    -21.66    3.54

 O  JORDAN     2049527   1675962     1395873    1321748     -5.31    1758649    1616178    1604363    1601837     -8.92    2.87

 O  CHINA T    2137686   1728983     1495501    1055777    -29.40    1716371    1419781    1375131    1289259    -24.88    2.31

 O  EGYPT      1188081   1570871     1362981    1077908    -20.92    1550410    1369094    1315676    1285798    -17.07    2.31

 O  MALAYSA    1407940   1336859     1145733    1091468     -4.74    1360141    1339364    1328064    1282594     -5.70    2.30

 O  PHIL R     2434630   1442781     1244754     985824    -20.80    1562313    1253032    1229495    1183851    -24.22    2.12


 O  _ASEAN    18366315  19191442    16215070   16245990      0.19   18785322   19544559   19470802   19222362      2.33   34.49

 O  _CBI      10345108  10857276     9243451    8570044     -7.29   11089190    9932342   10048343   10183869     -8.16   18.27

 O  _CAFTA     9874966  10381472     8849740    8129814     -8.13   10615850    9412519    9517377    9661546     -8.99   17.34

 O  _SUB-SAHA  1902227   2004979     1753882    1834976      4.62    2023482    2046441    2110836    2086073      3.09    3.74

 O  _ANDEAN     416757    315131      285418     182080    -36.21     362678     243045     223697     211793    -41.60    0.38