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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 218:  FABRICS OF YARNS OF DIFF. COLORS
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                   4304536   4184909   3361553       |   5038494         .     2478167   2156996   1919736   1642616   2671086   1986689   2256551

 China                   1631465   1883190   1571963       |   1959291         .     1103455    666834    757409    694652   1095100    679650    590059

 Taiwan                   402394    355795     99965       |   1119444         .      527166    568585    524269    309607    544114    548898    601896

 Italy                    779372    499628    395810       |    504194         .      428348    231418    118725     56378    287674    197884    233355

 India                    447779    499730    306870       |    364463         .      139502    115122    117055    217705    171931    103823    305727

 Mexico                   136860    116838    148752       |    272991         .       77755     93860     97442     32336     57442    184207     34636

 Japan                    242912    161756    105696       |    223611         .       32413     94352     28169     20065    203310     16316     41729

 Turkey                   203117    349183    279935       |    184244         .      136835    215914     67956    159022     79058     83338    259767

 Pakistan                  85196     35504     73641       |    122181         .        2044     35985     37793     13786     70466     51715     28085

 Portugal                  38750     45741     32311       |     77301         .        5877      6501     30250      4800     66144      9144     56023

 Germany                   41433     27265     13031       |     58248         .         275      1853      7280      5185     12929     45303      2357

 Korea, South              11743      3078     25044       |     44176         .         666      2382     23075       225     22082     22094       393

 Brazil                    29967     14887     29648       |     28036         .         493      4186     13125     12749     18613      9424     12301

 Indonesia                     0         0         0       |     22148         .           .         .         .         .     22148         .         .

 Hong Kong                   607      2116     78064       |     15892         .         416       520     36792     41272         .     15892      8177

 France                    40173     35636      9576       |     10957         .        7247      1993      5265      3796      4349      5832      4243

 _ASEAN                    55808      8132     29183       |     27660         .        6781     24689      1331      4498     26412      1093     30324

 _CBI                        220       600      1988       |      1580         .           .         .        40      2239      1246       334      5624

 _CAFTA                      220       600      1988       |      1580         .           .         .        40      2239      1246       334      5624

 _SUB-SAHARA                2522       195     89023       |       376         .         293     81900     43655     45453         .       150      1851

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              219       341       100       |       370         .         566        28        15       156       133       237      1017