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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 317:  COTTON TWILL 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                   6641977   5237702   2792073       |   5120127         .     1407583   1398920   1167684   1775191   2167846   2164790   2007231

 China                   3849287   2905690   1345466       |   2619033         .      536351    591820    679140   1086134   1216643    769650    972845

 Pakistan                1370933   1370476    803418       |   1562552         .      630064    451475    308342    501785    502535    955682    582622

 Taiwan                   326619    107328    101576       |    246783         .        6571     60749     40030     44084     97686    125921     52601

 India                    200519    120913    144139       |    182449         .       26248    166782      7239     45731    100086     66529     87597

 Japan                     28934     29962     37902       |     96920         .        6786     16595     34982     10832     47410     39532     61708

 Hong Kong                   117      7385     11771       |     69514         .           .         .      6088      5683         .     69514      4184

 Italy                     55609    122324     19380       |     64091         .       11070       638      3655     15985     12130     51008     26430

 Thailand                 217238      3812     97015       |     53783         .           .     36928     47355     48515     50506      3277     84732

 Spain                      2020     14497      2103       |     39678         .          14         .       347      1683      6420     33258        70

 Germany                   60322    140511      6497       |     32197         .       43767      5962      4330       525     31492       368     11839

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |     27717         .           .      1700         .        20     27703         .      8514

 Turkey                    20028     49201     21591       |     24271         .       38722       447     20799       957      4412     19859      1553

 Korea, South              20203     27544     10221       |     21849         .        8366      4421      1262      8751     13995      7854     18630

 Peru                        637        57     39868       |     16969         .       15198     44877      8444        12     16941        28     48004

 Brazil                    22050     53339      5201       |     16760         .        8530      3014      2505      2696     10274      6485     13460

 _ASEAN                   217793     24118     97015       |     58828         .         152     36928     47355     48515     50506      8322    108201

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             5531        57     39868       |     16969         .       15198     44877      8618        12     16941        28     48004

 _CBI                      17854      2361         0       |     14747         .           .      6881         .         .     14747         .       277

 _CAFTA                    17854      2361         0       |     14747         .           .      6881         .         .     14747         .       277

 _SUB-SAHARA                1109         0         0       |       100         .           .         .         .       100         .         .         .