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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 313:  COTTON SHEETING FABRIC
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                  23743959  20837081  15607501       |  14817799         .     7886152   7249039   6898968   6922394   7400776   6352393   9108715

 China                   9835785   8277510   6219383       |   5512397         .     2583475   2625754   3177874   2642492   2917765   2223917   3263495

 Korea, South            4490393   4797753   3894258       |   3621710         .     2242642   1435061   1687368   1538003   1854158   1607915   2168662

 Pakistan                5906938   4444681   2904789       |   3490469         .     1835134   1981731   1079042   1235198   1522490   1592540   1739187

 Japan                    777067   1241891    994031       |    842142         .      318120    397310    278468    589665    319233    507241    867451

 Indonesia                524721    125872    486730       |    368776         .      238219    214902    228904    269062    289352     79424    282457

 Thailand                 730978    498429    502084       |    285628         .      217681    142654    386750    165294     77524    132901    146192

 India                    242382    513116     63805       |    279309         .      300440     57523     24666    273659    193199     37272    296565

 Taiwan                    32454      3185    157306       |    201744         .       89526    115925     12609     64853     84979    115591    236111

 Germany                  135278     73920     82145       |     66264         .        2102     79871         .      6590     64054      2005     58471

 Turkey                    62553     62008     90366       |     65245         .       20613     66573     11938     56313     16766     31764      7776

 Philippines                   0         0         0       |     19400         .           .         .         .         .     19400         .         .

 Brazil                     8135    109077      8004       |     12561         .        2691      7086      6813      1191      8226      4335      7721

 Switzerland                8148      5263      1410       |     10106         .         292      1493        29       100      9850       255       642

 United Kingdom             8630      8088      9931       |     10079         .        3610      1960      1360      2499      8381      1406     10624

 Malaysia                      0     13428      5980       |      8503         .           .      5980         .         .      4384      4119         .

 _ASEAN                  1256928    640111    994794       |    682307         .      456172    366219    615654    434356    390660    216444    428649

 _CBI                          0         0      2275       |         .         .           .         .      2275         .         .         .       102

 _CAFTA                        0         0      2275       |         .         .           .         .      2275         .         .         .       102

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                1296       444         0       |         .         .           .         .         .        14         .         .       161