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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 224: PILE / TUFTED FABRICS
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)
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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 16967536 13374806 14987914 | 17830633 . 8859217 8252201 7200736 7998138 7675769 7617512 9280423
China 10113588 7690202 8164220 | 8816785 . 5105804 4119680 3551807 4322477 4373813 3773735 4208938
France 471672 139820 79561 | 3603505 . 489849 849806 970640 1309970 1745804 799415 1874132
Taiwan 1385103 938153 1642258 | 1918168 . 674793 927047 829931 480602 891285 946401 427443
Malta and Gozo 1890667 1821379 3417296 | 1915408 . 1782951 1574267 1285629 1193324 . 1279484 1951298
Korea, South 579458 509144 667050 | 656996 . 276939 372109 222348 313201 221986 380678 429931
Mexico 291479 255149 232393 | 271926 . 103025 78410 105578 101429 111883 145393 113890
India 329355 262097 172566 | 252584 . 92412 86181 61630 68201 102628 133880 75232
Pakistan 97727 147566 99296 | 103046 . 61514 129779 9839 62262 96902 6144 3548
Turkey 1061710 1022547 107014 | 80301 . 21097 61796 45066 20091 43081 35747 30867
Italy 101544 68609 35584 | 45288 . 16326 20215 11775 18536 18654 24173 30576
Belgium / Luxembourg . . . | 41688 . 5702 10886 13027 16580 19544 19762 25945
Brazil 32343 69621 23418 | 34915 . 7831 . . 23418 34915 . 37949
Argentina 16688 30278 78936 | 23412 . 3344 9455 57952 20982 53 23359 51067
Germany 219129 19454 27319 | 15958 . 5944 2812 7450 18159 7145 8055 7296
Australia 16714 0 6776 | 7010 . . . 6776 . . 7010 .
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 3789 6921 3901 | 5385 . 1164 921 875 2537 2308 3077 1126
_CBI 790 16849 14177 | 349 . 2728 562 3811 10050 . 333 .
_CAFTA 790 16849 14177 | 349 . 2728 562 3811 10050 . 333 .
_ASEAN 79296 108974 1098 | . . 3897 843 1420 18 . . 66
_SUB-SAHARA 0 0 125 | . . 125 . . . . . .