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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 314:  COTTON POPLIN / BROADCLOTH FAB.
                                                      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                  11279333   7927090   9535390       |   8429580         .     4344098   5067224   4042386   3881482   3589684   3987946   4248038

 China                   6966997   5243486   4519728       |   4999675         .     2343368   2375855   2367634   1904733   2109169   2519063   2768648

 Pakistan                2315041    994802   2637566       |   1846788         .     1000081   1448373    807451   1168546    758012    776545    825140

 Indonesia                512564    444935    848628       |    427221         .      418322    388755    426377    304946    184558    178121    232579

 Korea, South              83611     95233    263203       |    267817         .       86931    102611     55988    197291    167493     27953     28783

 Thailand                 484399    309291     10685       |    212149         .        2426     26542      4624      6738     53231    158918     40720

 Japan                    246260    139974    151163       |    143260         .      311713     19458     74954     57757     58723     73729    122213

 Mexico                     9410    129828    120649       |    114946         .           .         .      1793    118857     13632    101314     36269

 Germany                    6208     34025     33396       |    103554         .         753     26358      5561     47053     51139     52415      6785

 United Arab Emirates     335805     41338    137531       |     97346         .        7045     69658     37461     30412     75711     21635     80401

 India                    139978    283151     25034       |     65420         .       18350     32046      4792      1860     60049      5351     39305

 Taiwan                     1608     61206     41710       |     49901         .       34209      5390     41459         .     14639     35262     12620

 Malaysia                      0      5682     40561       |     24225         .        4142         .     47219     16410     11382      6323         .

 Turkey                    29167     24413     15181       |     22226         .        3000     27263      5138     15560      1202      8274     18329

 Spain                      2204       149      2911       |     18550         .       16136     11551      1265         .     18469        81       447

 Italy                     49980     77435      8514       |     13236         .       11523     14701      2956      5004      7903      4353     29693

 _ASEAN                   997569    760208    900104       |    664159         .      425441    415297    478450    328094    249247    343851    273421

 _SUB-SAHARA                 871     15000         0       |       769         .           .       294         .        50        40       679       100

 _CBI                       6619         0         0       |        10         .           .         .         .         .         .        10         .

 _CAFTA                     6619         0         0       |        10         .           .         .         .         .         .        10         .

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