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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)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 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