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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 222:  KNIT FABRIC
                                                      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                   6228974   5014009   7452047       |   6568388         .     3154542   2979899   3209973   3475873   2776671   3147383   4053388

 China                    835722    781695   3113316       |   2860003         .     1584696   1180613   1387657   1549744   1157299   1355732   1976607

 Korea, South            2025394   1730689   2236266       |   1942231         .      828457    813432    965047   1011274    905958    938406   1060997

 India                   1481575    938283    954696       |    577706         .      314135    494822    394744    304303    301435    276271    330799

 Taiwan                   668682    544989    389129       |    436772         .      149853    226978    176841    200797    144489    222765    325333

 Mexico                   294745    201763    161341       |    140687         .       54078     79549     89473     56456     56455     67932     90793

 Vietnam                  132899     76849     49942       |    122148         .        2238      8541     17668     64366     22159     59996     30780

 Turkey                    63823     70918     92180       |     84370         .       37714     26849     30487     77841     30551     22795     69490

 Italy                    110748    128182     32759       |     72757         .       46428     17416     14281     16023     40966     27711     62706

 Indonesia                 79591     81784     48317       |     66792         .       30174     24844     25538     47210      6120     37106      4659

 Japan                    172540    166870     79177       |     52237         .       56908     36967     37172     49810     20808     27832     32851

 Thailand                   1405      1362     25524       |     47111         .        7277      1357     22363      9194     31518     15574     11562

 Pakistan                  19019        62         0       |     33913         .         199      3889        71      2590        88     33825        19

 Germany                   30142     22327     16695       |     32118         .       15036     23538      5368     11232     18838     13107      7880

 Brazil                    46174      9402     22980       |     19395         .        1218      1268      1200     20736      6121     11648      5685

 Egypt                     16098      9571      1490       |     12730         .        6963      5449      1490      6976         .      5754      2401

 _ASEAN                   214942    170602    126493       |    238924         .       39707     34901     65815    123222     59841    115461     47001

 _CBI                      11492      9753     16765       |      8783         .        4427      4188      8421     10686      3729      3991      7316

 _CAFTA                    11492      9753     16765       |      8783         .        4427      4188      8421     10686      3729      3991      7316

 _SUB-SAHARA               15688        29     11207       |       912         .         256     11151        62        43       784       128       858

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             1259       483     17018       |       466         .         292      3788      4043      9088       313       127       696