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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)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 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         .         .         .         .         .         .