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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 227:  OXFORD CLOTH
                                                      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                    272843     22060     57308       |     80634         .       33213     21228     18299     44375     80019       615      8365

 Pakistan                      0         0         0       |     35033         .           .         .         .         .     35033         .         .

 Japan                     21563      3419      5700       |     18796         .           .     16616      5700         .     18571       225        60

 China                     17639      6848     35269       |     15033         .       27151      4238      3880     44303     15033         .      1462

 Taiwan                     4199      7734      7653       |     10615         .        5608         .      7653         .     10336       279         .

 Indonesia                226660         0      1066       |       783         .           .         .      1066         .       783         .         .

 Czech Republic                0         0         0       |       179         .           .         .         .         .       179         .         .

 Italy                       691         0        72       |       128         .         204         .         .        72        84        44      1225

 Turkey                        0         0         0       |        34         .           .         .         .         .         .        34         .

 Germany                       0         0         0       |        33         .           .         .         .         .         .        33         .

 Canada                      920      3790      7548       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Mexico                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 El Salvador                   .         .         .       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .      5534

 Honduras                      0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Peru                          0       203         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Brazil                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                   226660         0      1066       |       783         .           .         .      1066         .       783         .         .

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .      5534

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .      5534

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0       203         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         0       |         .         .         250         .         .         .         .         .         .