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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 330:  COTTON HANDKERCHIEFS
                                                      Data in Doz.

(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                    521540    482577    509441       |    518813         .      340263    191900    182520    248842    145628    356770    211601

 China                    482282    464211    472891       |    498456         .      286452    146939    166162    234613    135953    346226    201878

 Pakistan                      0         0     20482       |      6350         .       48917     41957     11796      2286         .      6350      3250

 Malaysia                      1         1         2       |      5736         .           .         .         .       116      5736         .         .

 India                     35542     15782     13846       |      3234         .        4380      1633      2458     11660       464      2645      5829

 Czech Republic              502       603      1584       |      2467         .           .       925      1585         .      1575       892         .

 Korea, South                536       917       187       |       713         .           .         .       187         .       705         .        22

 Hong Kong                     0       436         0       |       554         .         201         .         .         .       465        89         .

 Japan                      1757       133       210       |       505         .           .        17       186        22       415        90         .

 Germany                     108         0        17       |       275         .           .        12         .        16         .       275         .

 Switzerland                   0       190         0       |       191         .           .         .         .         .       191         .         .

 Turkey                        0         0         0       |       101         .           .         .         .         .         .        99         .

 United Kingdom               21        69         5       |        69         .          45        30        14        21        34        25        21

 Italy                        96        17       123       |        64         .          11         .        65        59        30        32       500

 Mexico                        0         0         0       |        35         .          75         .         .         .         .        35         .

 Portugal                     26        54         0       |        25         .           .         .         .         .        25         .         .

 _ASEAN                      573         1         9       |      5737         .           .       319        11       116      5737         .        84

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .          18         .        18         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |         .         .          18         .        18         .         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .          30         .         .         .         .         .         .

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