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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 219:  DUCK FABRIC
                                                      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                   5970344   5266616   5137078       |   3460319         .     1551459   2358011   1887157   1878940   1928455   1413451   1976171

 India                   2304843   2230785   1526481       |   1228282         .      635474    750473    547378    808575    519895    629743    780362

 Pakistan                1680212   1044841   1316366       |    692187         .      481249    523672    906102    170164    357238    334949    370161

 Bahrain                  178916     59389    352267       |    438634         .           .     88427         .    263840    265753    172881    144664

 Taiwan                   290023    353946    170383       |    220584         .        4942     54444      1646    114877    184818     35623    317357

 Indonesia                180564     90575     92816       |    214180         .       91920     92816         .         .    214180         .    193887

 United Arab Emirates     509849    324436    252608       |    150111         .      159501     90612    161996         .      2045    148066     94769

 Thailand                 209665    262624    214514       |    141580         .        7211    120183     71504    149727     92241     42623         .

 China                    120572     95890    231494       |    103224         .       69881     45378     82868    150363     63473     16963     53134

 Turkey                        0     16526       231       |     89541         .          10        40        36       259     89523        18         .

 Turkmenistan             330710    574556    678036       |     88616         .           .    514048        82    164058     88616         .         .

 Mexico                    55280     48674    121854       |     69275         .       73159     70777     12569     49820     44009     16192       792

 Israel                        0         0         0       |      6049         .       22288         .         .         .         .      6049         .

 Korea, South               4958     10138     96138       |      4786         .           .         .     96008         .       164      4622        22

 Japan                       148      7647      1815       |      3652         .         147      1646      1815      1815        22      3630      1934

 Italy                      3020      2595      2394       |      2317         .         586       263      1008      1200      1693       515      2059

 _ASEAN                   390229    353199    307330       |    355760         .       99131    212999     71504    149727    306421     42623    193890

 _CBI                       1357        63         0       |      1452         .           .         .         .         .      1452         .         .

 _CAFTA                     1357        63         0       |      1440         .           .         .         .         .      1440         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                  66     31637       110       |       416         .          45       140        99       166       282         .       420

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .