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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 845/846 :  SWEATERS - SILK & VE
                                            Data in Doz , 30.80 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      3006601   1372069     1224701     840559    -31.37    1528284    1125479    1039236     987927    -35.36  100.00

 O  CHINA P    2831402   1330790     1188251     806185    -32.15    1479579    1093665    1002462     948724    -35.88   96.03