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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 220:  FABRIC OF SPECIAL WEAVE
                                                      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                  13634042   9116256  12711335       |  13271124         .     4393399   6680462   6313000   3345333   5039312   7785007   6668133

 China                   8228469   6402285   9280008       |   9881580         .     2821756   4790581   4954642   2056923   3036301   6534822   4030743

 Pakistan                2419248    621593   1485744       |   1311839         .      618010    816177    592420    568800    881423    394634   1223153

 United Arab Emirates     281320     39208     88321       |    359408         .       18118    238134         .         .    300581     58827    129824

 India                    159528    202977    141462       |    263386         .       68112    114903     66471     27225     81797    176869     53239

 Korea, South             162227    170584    173568       |    235139         .      321172     29236     44753    152169    163362     64302     75256

 Taiwan                   356133    278154    279277       |    196171         .      183116    154174     74851    159487     98060     71524    115201

 Mexico                   264784    207083    292340       |    178254         .       70097     56142    185575    103965    153195     22829    123127

 Italy                    403672    226034     88246       |    174397         .       62842     59111     32551     38773     56626    108903    253078

 Israel                    30053     81517     23922       |     78572         .       14785      5790     13853      5732     36378     42194      1973

 Indonesia                 22696     53155     13339       |     77921         .        8415     15492         .         .      8473     69448      1540

 Turkey                   127155     83400    130542       |     65473         .       26349     69804     60661     21249     44208     16943     45419

 Spain                     64506     27189     65468       |     58603         .       37148     42001     42163     34101      7938     19533     67709

 Peru                      59472     65625     16747       |     56780         .         123     23788      7620       511     11768     45012     17105

 Japan                    109172    118492     47675       |     47356         .       27386     17129     17453     17566     20373     24709    113146

 Germany                   63455     73180     54081       |     44130         .       11802     31016     12738     18402     21139     20839     24523

 _ASEAN                    56609    110451     76729       |    117558         .       60758     31217     16345     52206     43593     73780     60278

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            59645     67223     17427       |     64382         .         461     23788      7620      1191     11768     52614     17105

 _CBI                      32708     18206     14383       |     36392         .        3226     19632      7808     15760     15610     17669     10054

 _CAFTA                    32678     18206     14383       |     36356         .        2976     19632      7808     15735     15599     17669     10054

 _SUB-SAHARA                9106       318     95561       |       443         .         884     94035      1579       326        98       213      6533