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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 223:  NON-WOVEN FABRICS
                                                      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                  15141258  13314985  14594720       |  14435764         .     5386375   5322356   6493201   6042810   6830939   6416595   5976718

 China                   2848827   2231610   2645066       |   2403049         .     1076855   1096196   1404536   1064083   1126064   1088708   1146626

 Israel                  1258774   1363677   1742335       |   2025817         .      855716    861970    760717    653855   1086129    904041    512632

 Mexico                  1521221   1121889   1673112       |   2009230         .      724924    721070    797521    746792    946882    967600    836208

 Germany                  797839    597781    805530       |   1046829         .      325073    504367    319469    442552    600978    349489    478653

 Brazil                   876733   1001257   1022783       |   1046524         .      529491    441213    534142    769971    560965    371753    352482

 Japan                   1002582    647489    608039       |    955365         .      279313    226056    357012    250917    456785    442241    192462

 Taiwan                   803579    718075    277913       |    521553         .       80662    128737     96797    105100    369677    118672    144309

 France                   456547    475847    271903       |    473531         .      230377     67168    104069    169972    156812    278733    241723

 Luxembourg               491089    247796    418930       |    450965         .      182341         .    281522    306146    120959    178344    201229

 Turkey                   318380    318184    348340       |    379471         .      162910    167802    141070    153078    164607    139955    216865

 Italy                    247865    232581    163123       |    374749         .      187877    109664     79305     88506    146654    186200    138936

 Korea, South             451389    366113    251246       |    314894         .      106910     91153    125274    109282    156630    111259    186089

 India                    171691    111750    327236       |    288064         .       37051     95020    191587    114300     61911    216444    145976

 Australia                190260    207024    368141       |    282716         .      213038     40214    257264    195131     99826     86814     66076

 Saudi Arabia             407799    581109    269676       |    267846         .        8408    119880    149796         .     55466    212380    249776

 _ASEAN                   378263    231266    668193       |    333232         .       69560     89237    525480     99275    147480    155410    107872

 _CBI                      74514     20593     21503       |     36611         .       21770     32107      5130     14629     21625      5085     23066

 _CAFTA                    74514     20593     21503       |     36611         .       21770     32107      5130     14629     21625      5085     23066

 _SUB-SAHARA                2196      8624      7985       |     12640         .        9751      5702      7985         .     10906      1734     11657

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             2681      1317         0       |      3755         .           .         .         .         .      3755         .       192