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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 315:  COTTON PRINTCLOTH 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                   5318172   5584093   3804825       |   4434859         .     1314482   2045429   1439742   1956309   1499076   2583576   2327940

 China                   2732581   2587066   1763690       |   2213458         .      554482   1107628    567317    735401    609200   1470490   1162285

 Pakistan                 855902    897505    315295       |   1005890         .      237736    157320    299657    166241    390307    477310    133343

 Thailand                 905907   1421810    824400       |    710743         .      122834    443899    120611    632146    244705    433878    782109

 Korea, South             115449    267499    331636       |    296154         .      159206     56129    166899    235435    176404     83144     35821

 Japan                    236239     85144    111641       |     82401         .       53307     53833     66182     10610      1940     78661    148502

 Indonesia                 39511      3050         0       |     58957         .           .         .         .         .     39643     19314      7374

 India                    392678    189702    453930       |     53995         .      139256    222430    216182    166363     34614     19381     49338

 Australia                  8005         0         0       |      5682         .           .         .         .      5682         .         .         .

 Hong Kong                 12762     18886         0       |      3837         .       46832         .         .      3837         .         .         .

 Italy                      1991      1471      1079       |      1850         .         107        13      1093        70      1085       758         .

 United Kingdom             2244      2216      1740       |       979         .         145      1287      1133        24       823       154      2173

 France                     2119       331       544       |       385         .          49         .       109       150       166       179        77

 Netherlands                1317      9361       790       |       309         .         527       586       520       270         .       309       321

 Switzerland                  35       142        30       |       189         .           .         .        39         .       189         .         .

 Germany                    2542       623         0       |        30         .           .         .         .        30         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                   945418   1424860    824400       |    769700         .      122834    443899    120611    632146    284348    453192    789483

 _CBI                        174         0        50       |         .         .           .         .         .        50         .         .       100

 _CAFTA                      174         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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

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