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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             November 19, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |               By Category               |
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                                           Category 200:  YARN FOR RETAIL SALE,SEWING THREAD
                                                      Data in Kg..

(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.

Because this report contains data for HTS Chapters 50-63 only, the following categories may be incomplete or not 
appear at all:  201, 229, 239, 359, 362, 369, 439, 459, 469, 621, 622, 659, 666, 669, 670, 859, 870, 871 and 899.


                        ----------- Official Data -------- |  --------------- Preliminary Data (unofficial) --------------------------------------------| 
                                                    Monthly Data                          Two Weeks-ending Data  (2009)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 Country                 10/2008   11/2008    9/2009       |  10/2009   11/2009        8/22      9/05      9/19     10/03     10/17     10/31     11/14
                                                                 (P)       (P)          (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)
 World                   1535835   1078812   1505104       |   1075906         .      560381    561101    535576    479083    494035    432881    515550

 Turkey                   305994    331135    544705       |    264016         .      161008    222310    131358    138637     69772    139891    156012

 Mexico                   299470    159484    258485       |    236469         .      109707    115396    122794    107399    123086    113373    128396

 China                    263112    160508    155981       |    233936         .      106083    129939     80030    105287    107916     76156    104554

 Thailand                 122844     79975     45077       |    102220         .       59993     25176     29412         .     57008     45212     56969

 India                     48463     42037    108430       |     85088         .       77893     17195    104345     25689     51081     26769      2276

 Indonesia                 12949     17604      1157       |     41740         .           .        93      1690     25560     17210      1551     20199

 France                    15835      5231      5922       |     25238         .        2521       874      5294      6998     14485      3956      7229

 Germany                   27937     27237     28204       |     25230         .       12121      8359     16520     16840     11142      9348     11643

 Costa Rica                    0       244     10293       |      8964         .           .         .     10293        50      4415      4499         .

 Honduras                    360      9429     19662       |      8814         .        1407     15928     12103      3589      8739        75      4889

 Egypt                     16981     28122     24123       |      6709         .           .      1049     11533     12590      6709         .         .

 Taiwan                    20821      6682      6488       |      6060         .        3065      3814      1521     13778      3900      1974      2622

 Israel                     5833      7976      6990       |      5535         .          24      2257         .      4676      5535         .         .

 Japan                      5554      5891      3982       |      3943         .        2440      4353       325      1655      3130       726      1823

 Italy                      6803     11208      3221       |      3008         .        3371      7414       958      2104      1453      1334      3417

 _ASEAN                   160887    102475     48474       |    144904         .       60030     26965     31112     26964     74218     47707     77222

 _CBI                        891      9673     29955       |     18538         .        1788     15928     22410      3639     13698      4790      5343

 _CAFTA                      891      9673     29955       |     18538         .        1778     15928     22410      3639     13698      4790      5343

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             7441      5626      4190       |      2982         .         334      2545      1530      5699       806       399      3943

 _SUB-SAHARA                 201        22         0       |        32         .          20        33         .        20        15        17         .