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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 226:  CHEESECLOTH, BATISTES, LAWNS/VOILE
                                                      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                   2801617   3497998   3178104       |   2339355         .     1258527    845573   1169270   1332482   1252397    738952   1421770

 China                    640308   1019572   1688866       |   1243368         .      861822    341582   1007344    846214    468317    666474   1115592

 India                    370838    395230    348462       |    613446         .       55649    344098      1872    235224    365308     15795     18461

 Korea, South             118446    403134    203477       |    171422         .      105356     83968     50642     69450    148932     19945    153723

 El Salvador              151603         0         0       |    122909         .           .         .         .         .    122909         .         .

 Mexico                   158321    100563         0       |     68066         .         200         .         .         .     68066         .      8962

 Pakistan                 348292    407202    131557       |     39808         .      200674      7859    103216    115070     39808         .     99452

 Japan                      9248     57449     46473       |     21513         .        4978      7289      1797     38557     15059      6454     14219

 Taiwan                    31401     27984         0       |     10483         .       14402         .         .      6859      2838      7645         .

 Indonesia                  1664       313     21080       |     10077         .           .     49338         .         .         .     10077         .

 Finland                     644     46108     20477       |      9146         .         546       775      1538     11489      7943      1142       960

 Singapore                     0         0         0       |      6847         .           .         .         .         .      6847         .         .

 Switzerland                8784      1174      1815       |      4318         .        1611      1095       230       952       955      3363      1179

 Ghana                         0         0         0       |      4187         .           .         .         .      4187         .         .         .

 Italy                      6340     16641      1733       |      3218         .       10358        43      1291       421      1402      1816      3150

 Thailand                  17367    124515         0       |      3197         .          20         .        19       849       346      2851        76

 _CBI                     151603         0         0       |    123034         .           .         .         .       125    122909         .         .

 _CAFTA                   151603         0         0       |    123034         .           .         .         .       125    122909         .         .

 _ASEAN                    19971    124828     21080       |     20121         .         184     49338        19       849      7193     12928        76

 _SUB-SAHARA                1486      2175       939       |      4208         .          15         .         .      5126        21         .         .

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