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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 331:  COTTON GLOVES AND MITTENS
                                                      Data in Dpr.

(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                   4067683   2891721   2496749       |   2276850         .      820541   1272469   1046771   1127690    897364   1147862   1120836

 China                   2293195   1958389   1561483       |   1447547         .      490520    651674    720588    717906    596709    694520    824026

 Pakistan                 589438    209454    236824       |    202032         .       11848    124929     86908     28516     59980    140540     88377

 Mexico                   174085    180728     45895       |    110652         .       27809     48158     50203     37434     49685     60967     55934

 Philippines              192125    147371    108955       |    102368         .       46500     56502     25661     67688     63270     18351     47440

 Sri Lanka                 93072     18571     18424       |     89311         .        4234     12534       200      6364     79326      9985      6970

 Korea, South              94373     80207    122965       |     88056         .       19573    103087     79774      1663     23777     63329     15171

 Thailand                  77294     24200     73230       |     72170         .       48500         .     24500     48730         .     72170         .

 India                     48775      9550     15142       |     66502         .          53     24851         .     43000     11002     12500      2560

 Indonesia                279190    156820    135840       |     60760         .      135240    106940     22000    141515         .     60760     58505

 Honduras                  19113     17280      9559       |     15310         .        4914      2994      5486      7630      4655      7098      6511

 Taiwan                    33868      2500      8710       |     11441         .        3031     16470     17164       430      6006      5010      1213

 Hong Kong                 22473      8494     31670       |      6102         .       23164      2196     10412     24415         .      1002       103

 Guatemala                  9460     16410      3840       |      2860         .        3843         .      1847      2000      1320      1540      8520

 Malaysia                  15636     11124      7452       |      1512         .        1140      7236         .       240      1512         .      4950

 Japan                         5       680        33       |        46         .          29        61        80        21        21        13        55

 _ASEAN                   564245    339515    325555       |    236811         .      231380    170678     72167    258251     64783    151281    111045

 _CBI                      58394     65086     13399       |     18170         .        8757      2994      7333      9630      5975      8638     15031

 _CAFTA                    28573     33690     13399       |     18170         .        8757      2994      7333      9630      5975      8638     15031

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)               15         0       416       |        40         .          51       262      1795        27        28        12        29

 _SUB-SAHARA                  75       300        25       |         .         .          27        50         .         .         .         .         .