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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 332:  COTTON HOSIERY
                                                      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                  16184628  13179203  14560338       |  15763291         .     6480219   7648487   6214917   6410755   7362350   7351773   7106696

 Honduras                4152081   3522294   3808035       |   4495048         .     1936666   2408038   1697657   1467478   1992613   2308634   1922804

 Pakistan                4134490   3462208   3181595       |   3076886         .     1333395   1472204   1192907   1466284   1630365   1257357   1672436

 China                   1993377   1253394   2833458       |   3027267         .     1075006   1151478   1196582   1611529   1227651   1392359   1573656

 Mexico                  1385938   1360877   1517803       |   1383250         .      696816    802433    610373    641341    604500    749488    617725

 El Salvador                   0         0    861251       |   1193645         .      444205    567543    391818    341831    687703    486970    377378

 Korea, South            1224575    973397    811767       |   1050849         .      170693    448909    321746    330186    494856    430998    334846

 Costa Rica               909644    856327    640064       |    589799         .      342974    275591    276532    222109    258955    302617    238651

 Taiwan                   348696    167697    222051       |    254240         .      160142    201052    102476    102723    136771    112471     59114

 Cambodia                  96252     86650     86898       |    142928         .       69739     41249     49749      8336     45460     89132     14964

 Colombia                 157623    127330    123615       |     88162         .       16825     52146     76713     60810     43725     38937     65757

 Indonesia                103205     38256     20466       |     78909         .       46598      7300      8590     16362     68430      3460     21464

 Turkey                   162633     98902     66582       |     78779         .       12372     59257     43509     20617     51499     24664     41188

 India                     74724     30589     38927       |     75716         .       29176     10358      6223     24372     52636     22949      9224

 Hong Kong                 66162     38890     30348       |     51915         .       28505     30661       418     45545     12000     24300     12505

 Philippines               56342     53640     71850       |     42055         .       15241     38858     28921     17940     10206     26059     39749

 _CBI                    5955272   5006142   5344393       |   6299902         .     2738477   3252946   2398296   2032418   2943023   3115879   2538836

 _CAFTA                  5955272   5006114   5344393       |   6299895         .     2738477   3252946   2398296   2032418   2943023   3115872   2538836

 _ASEAN                   619901    581585    300013       |    352379         .      180918    132157    204623     51916    154180    169769    153926

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)           161983    138767    196536       |     89480         .       31294     65482    133047     76872     44457     39517     81954

 _SUB-SAHARA                 100      1171        95       |       658         .          51        26        71         .        50       608       717