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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 225:  BLUE DENIM FABRIC
                                                      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                   2820999   1710329   2408259       |   2299985         .     1367094   1211411   1059235   1090706    799972   1137279   1209206

 China                    644630    468469    900189       |    792379         .      482365    448486    543438    466130    313448    259646    314974

 Italy                    400312    361805    461961       |    344628         .      132129    112737    101160    185630    157795    158709    389011

 Mexico                   473415    290586    307595       |    306480         .       68544    141695    206437    138161     90559    185975     52588

 Japan                    225471    186373    119674       |    263631         .      100949    120384     34747     38044    101995    148835    167407

 Turkey                   663942     85520    139241       |    206835         .      130683    138540     20789     36517     45375    141843     86134

 Taiwan                   252823    301024    305754       |    198553         .      243492    233736    143538     92844     54751    143802    144206

 India                         0         0     71895       |     77630         .           .        52        52     99295         .     31695       384

 Thailand                      0         0         0       |     53486         .           .         .         .         .         .     53486       483

 Hong Kong                     0         0     19371       |     25565         .           .      7409         .     12082     25565         .     13560

 Pakistan                   4397      9225     60964       |      9695         .      156379      5788         .      2800      1752      7943      6160

 Indonesia                     0         0       568       |      7026         .           .      1909       568      7026         .         .         .

 Tunisia                       0         0         0       |      6135         .        2197         .         .         .      6135         .      5485

 Spain                      6763      2083      7287       |      5001         .           .         .         .      7287         .      5001         .

 Denmark                    1962      1687       458       |      1757         .          78       673        59       399      1709        48      2177

 Greece                        0      2213      2501       |       888         .           .         .      1797       339       888         .         .

 _ASEAN                        0       360       568       |     60512         .           .      1909       568      7026         .     53486       483

 _CBI                        288         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                      288         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .