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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 333:  M/B SUIT-TYPE COATS, COTTON
                                                      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                     64068     37916     35763       |     43790         .       22265     20639     17085     17710     18535     19997      7649

 China                     36009     20863     23449       |     28279         .       15606     14312      9508     10832     11182     14283      5781

 Vietnam                    7514       281      3772       |      6356         .        3275      2226      2608      2204      2464      3225       246

 Indonesia                  5683      1049      1063       |      2299         .         815      1986       689       465      1538       548       435

 Egypt                       773       318       714       |      1925         .           .       386       328      1452       114       582        34

 India                      3539      5493       578       |      1686         .          69        14       453       123      1370       316       125

 El Salvador                  56       414       512       |       527         .         149        45       231       443       208       198         .

 Pakistan                   1757      1061        77       |       507         .         264         .        77         .       507         .        77

 Italy                       722       428       546       |       455         .         145       191       199       395       156       281       233

 Turkey                      568       303       297       |       414         .         117       257       176       141       166       240       199

 Bangladesh                 1497      1180      1142       |       349         .         294         .      1142         .       344         .       152

 Thailand                   3576      2578       937       |       281         .           .       385       646       153       278         .         .

 Nepal                       866         4       457       |       192         .          59        90       336       287        10        16        27

 Morocco                      63        62       116       |       111         .          31        68       125        67        63        45        52

 Portugal                     45        68       167       |        90         .          95        36       163        35        40        46        53

 Mexico                      230       265       370       |        78         .         658       464         .        68         .        75         .

 _ASEAN                    16806      3911      5772       |      8939         .        4253      4597      3943      2822      4283      3776       689

 _CBI                         73       414       512       |       529         .         151        47       231       443       210       198         .

 _CAFTA                       73       414       512       |       529         .         151        47       231       443       210       198         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)               54        29       835       |         .         .          88        27         .       817         .         .        56

 _SUB-SAHARA                   3         0        43       |         .         .           .         .         .        43         .         .        12