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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 237:  PLAYSUITS, SUNSUITS, ETC
                                                      Data in Doz.

(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                     83815    118990     76034       |     72624         .       38267     36396     28892     48308     31456     28233     47341

 China                     14882     26226     33728       |     32306         .       14710      9513     10102     23396     15466     12116     15436

 Bangladesh                 1249     22143      3344       |      8275         .        4577       518      1456      4888       199      4773     13326

 India                     10489     13073      1315       |      7430         .         832       554       722      2693      3319      1862      5392

 Pakistan                   7477      2597      5741       |      3261         .        5150      8423      2562      2421        74      2912      1771

 Egypt                       148      1702       168       |      3261         .           .       168         .         .      1231      2030         .

 South Africa                  0         5         0       |      2967         .           .         .         .         .      2967         .         .

 Guatemala                 20247     15312      1006       |      2096         .        1012         .       631      1226       274       921      2353

 Kenya                       714      3696       888       |      1904         .           .         .         .      1366      1426         .         .

 Indonesia                  1170      1783      5154       |      1867         .        9057      9896      2274      2232       947       493       195

 Vietnam                     270      6411      3252       |      1737         .          71      1388      2289       341      1322       413      3610

 Mexico                     7079     10629      2587       |      1639         .         170       639      1135      1405      1117       468       289

 Madagascar                  150         0      2967       |      1597         .          10       728       543      2013       772       515      1625

 Peru                        484       341       462       |       981         .         373       385       198       196       310       671       683

 Korea, South                184        17       237       |       754         .           .        17       234         .       650       104        15

 Thailand                   1169       260      3895       |       675         .        1055       396      3120         .       487       188       176

 _SUB-SAHARA                 864      3771      3855       |      6469         .          11       731       544      3381      5165       516      1625

 _ASEAN                     4100     15342     21337       |      4676         .       10294     14571     10652      7362      2940      1257      5720

 _CBI                      33377     22563      1615       |      2593         .        1705       648      1010      1453       588      1073      2769

 _CAFTA                    30848     22468      1519       |      2535         .        1705       648       946      1421       530      1073      2754

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              549       530       572       |      1314         .         481       469       230       290       598       716       836