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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 201:  SPECIALTY YARNS
                                                      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                   2286952   2269561   1484182       |   1285256         .      812169    587080    592252    698501    419550    706302    868364

 Mexico                   762723    682044    391843       |    359135         .      241258    199861    186587    176204    168550    171049    138235

 India                    144226    255303    212451       |    140622         .      109473     49237     68735    180301     16159     66801     71716

 China                     87568    137540    108071       |    125961         .       68034     64535     46669     59550     39546     71409     43828

 Turkey                    86905    178842     38907       |     68930         .       29930     25637      5736     24385      8032     49693     15867

 Korea, South             111512     62871    116371       |     61961         .       75896     15495     78416     36372     25954     36003     19512

 Taiwan                    83188     82460     50414       |     55213         .       28118     11573     18703     23940     17532     37443     25779

 France                    39744     76954     40186       |     49300         .       24322      4842     21201     35240     12051     20959     19256

 Philippines                7974       642     16767       |     45702         .       12331     11578     16767     18979     14670     31032     15524

 Guatemala                 65638     87792     66130       |     43906         .       25072     32621     20848     39946      1600     39386      5680

 Thailand                 101262     55145     53100       |     42951         .       29784     15252     42101     11700         .     31440     34945

 Costa Rica               112015     34668     18192       |     36461         .       48792         .     18191         .     17295     19166     60462

 Vietnam                  131933    134913     68570       |     35937         .       39796     49179     33100     18513         .     35937     58891

 Colombia                 120115     68983     18130       |     29299         .       19149      4159     13843     14789      4270     14612      5183

 Peru                      25405      1762      5002       |     24769         .         176        65      4937       107     23828       834      6932

 Romania                   10468      6516         0       |     24627         .        2131      6472         .         .      9397     15230      9466

 _ASEAN                   242530    190700    160611       |    140014         .       82714     92464     92458     56136     15427    113076    109387

 _CBI                     184745    122460     95322       |     99490         .       73864     50953     39039     39970     18994     77552     66192

 _CAFTA                   184745    122460     95322       |     99490         .       73864     50953     39039     39970     18994     77552     66192

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)           145520     70745     23132       |     54068         .       19325      4224     18780     14896     28098     15446     12115

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0       608         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .