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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 301:  COMBED 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                   3248473   2130883   1929619       |   1864449         .      889131    866969   1088207    840978    870126    875077   1332224

 Korea, South             587268    296224    615209       |    634190         .      167154    243035    395964    254330    276283    357907    505786

 Mexico                   218912    133896    358193       |    298641         .       92545    112275    170795    169331    150170    129102    148117

 Indonesia                469624    269598     71870       |    216232         .       53353     11715     52819     99792     72559    113669    224884

 India                    437923    329398    236314       |    211278         .      122814    197283    117069     70236    121477     69430    151048

 Thailand                 687400    646607    208886       |    195967         .      123690     97292    159063    102860    171080      3719     21862

 Pakistan                 681897    328184    244340       |    184604         .      217219    129600    122129     19941     39939    144665    167441

 Vietnam                   72576     55521     50803       |     40825         .       42208      8165     42639     16329      8165     24495     57155

 China                       412      1363     23488       |     35129         .       10044     19427      4061     34164     19049       114         .

 Egypt                     46137     39300     44009       |     22516         .       22776     28997     12188     31821      8837     13679     33270

 Taiwan                        0         0       912       |     17469         .       35932     11697         .       630         .     17464     16783

 Hungary                     420        46     18075       |      3740         .           .         .         .     21822         .         .         .

 Italy                     13271       377       972       |      2226         .           .        95       672      1101      1677       359       509

 France                     1243       265      1246       |      1313         .         284       141      1040       232       711       435       774

 Switzerland                8983         0       268       |       173         .           .        95       268         .       173         .      4443

 Peru                          0        19       466       |       106         .          55       465         .       111         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                  1229600    971726    331559       |    453024         .      219251    117172    254521    218981    251804    141883    303901

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0        19       466       |       106         .          55       465         .       111         .         .         .

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

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

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