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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 326:  COTTON SATEEN 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                   4291757   4470843   4054040       |   3284670         .     1555858   2229447   2004827   1621910   1617178   1296243   1349782

 China                   1899544    604128   2202308       |   1365185         .      741992   1471591    968042    506136    750886    500203    715161

 Pakistan                1348376   2303984    775759       |    814185         .      331084    439349    583807    485297    363122    377485    277565

 United Arab Emirates     246949    345719    645088       |    657362         .      288765     74848    203113    509057    218836    296595    116617

 Bahrain                  384290    595922    121368       |    151311         .        6370         .    121368         .    151311         .         .

 Taiwan                    48256     84294    137875       |    133339         .      105662     61496     35312     72517     47433     58525      7487

 Korea, South              43143     67735     48388       |     42023         .       10224      8795     36515     12636     29144     11465     51461

 India                    141444    119568     90019       |     32588         .       17457     32735     44021     15734     23388      8587     14108

 Italy                     45793     24534      4049       |     28889         .       12444      1735      2637      7591     16159      7316     26364

 Turkey                    10643      3369      7252       |     19646         .        3809      9058       393      6740       508     12783      3604

 Germany                    9254     18067         0       |     18782         .          23        10         .       250       903     17629       123

 Japan                     17682     21762      8848       |     11987         .        6678      1509      7339         .      9518      2469      5619

 Finland                     947       961     10172       |      4667         .         145       237       573      5623      4314       353       145

 Portugal                   1989      4499        70       |      1714         .        1184        81       581         .       600      1114       873

 Tunisia                       0      2124         0       |      1358         .           .         .         .         .         .      1358         .

 Switzerland                 394       584        24       |       544         .          43       139         .       244       327        22       110

 _ASEAN                    79859    201377         0       |       161         .        5089    121788       149         .       106        55    130205

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

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

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

 _SUB-SAHARA                 492       900         0       |         .         .         660         .         .         .         .         .         .