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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 300:  CARDED COTTON YARN
                                                      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                   2049204   1668379   1246879       |   1233424         .      699700    462151    563929    675530    549374    600816    879006

 Pakistan                 976569    888511    502929       |    495757         .      299188    235284    223837    266970    190546    269831    507613

 Mexico                   266756    128251    418237       |    427623         .      202747    150663    183839    209996    240057    150278    213289

 India                    119558    101777    100742       |    148624         .       80410     15214     45892     77588     67309     81076     85048

 Korea, South                  0         0    124782       |     89130         .       33289     17826     71304     53478     35652     53478     17826

 China                     56470     35734     39357       |     22593         .       17029     11261     12515     31373     10984      8840      9312

 Spain                     25472     81878       465       |     20233         .       30282      1848       465       386      3716     16131         .

 Indonesia                 69452      1442     18144       |     18294         .           .     16937         .     24959         .     11479      8693

 Thailand                  67635     90841      6995       |      7600         .       21724      4813      6505       563         .      7600     19229

 United Kingdom             1376      1350      1362       |      1374         .           .      2725         .      1362         .      1374      5873

 Brazil                     1794         0       648       |       808         .           .       160       488         .       808         .       503

 Italy                        58     12890        69       |       679         .       12023        12        42        15       204       475       387

 Peru                          0       293         0       |       490         .           .        12         .       310         .       180        55

 Sweden                      101         0        16       |       165         .          40         .        19        47        87        31        80

 Hong Kong                     0     29972         0       |        43         .           .         .         .         .         .        43      6068

 Japan                         0       102         0       |        11         .           .         .         .         .        11         .         .

 _ASEAN                   155231     92283     25139       |     25894         .       21744     21750      6505     25522         .     19079     27922

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0       293         0       |       490         .           .        12         .       310         .       180        55

 _CBI                      15897     14180     15183       |         .         .           .        17     15183         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                    15897     14180     15183       |         .         .           .        17     15183         .         .         .         .