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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 229: SPECIAL PURPOSE FABRIC
Data in Kg..
(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 9773628 9282673 10200107 | 8949200 . 4821866 4374705 4196233 3615574 4587640 3631159 5024436
Korea, South 1465490 1536577 2158238 | 1803897 . 694290 902111 1024225 638040 1150667 578708 1138524
Vietnam 579918 673464 2076428 | 1550478 . 1312802 947002 1061929 717432 908843 473356 1317970
China 1803558 1516570 1390059 | 1544739 . 827323 572796 624240 755149 766228 601776 777067
Taiwan 1051758 733766 1097628 | 1032867 . 466894 565169 460069 447226 404224 547934 308429
Mexico 541947 442738 776428 | 870551 . 359272 321594 376582 367990 401598 368796 490214
Israel 1099015 1457663 377394 | 482628 . 336728 357444 79800 131665 226611 204152 215969
India 280469 229109 260637 | 436200 . 236669 176827 156352 91770 208244 210707 230378
Japan 375206 318635 298487 | 308356 . 103290 167303 138129 126326 116418 181642 210082
Germany 106255 127111 73565 | 146611 . 83827 32160 12603 49963 59407 86647 48876
Italy 110904 156354 39495 | 84471 . 33111 24363 11627 7122 41346 42050 25578
Indonesia 67744 69396 34632 | 84179 . 11242 23563 22490 13819 50520 31925 3981
Spain 88519 107128 65717 | 83905 . 25959 29696 26701 60192 20045 63481 40518
Australia 57339 18908 36743 | 83860 . 8569 18824 16872 1049 49240 34620 1086
Poland 49967 102468 98601 | 68664 . 33474 83187 14920 50084 33832 34832 50160
Thailand 108847 67838 87550 | 45118 . 66853 12241 50981 50860 18646 6545 10764
_ASEAN 774923 819288 2204099 | 1729855 . 1420795 987263 1135725 808965 978173 552970 1345997
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 5797 4021 14383 | 13789 . 302 491 3805 10687 12452 1337 1884
_CBI 9795 15056 3582 | 5778 . 751 810 1569 1898 1653 4125 2704
_CAFTA 8328 13327 2436 | 4163 . 513 489 1082 1255 971 3192 1671
_SUB-SAHARA 83812 74103 2911 | 1516 . 1792 9860 2326 502 595 822 1576