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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 336:  COTTON DRESSES
                                                      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                    638156    819564    702835       |    763748         .      339224    350587    338436    322521    313889    383921    478368

 China                    335958    426929    382179       |    429919         .      189361    170985    181645    184222    180519    210450    257536

 India                     66316     90720     96811       |     93343         .       53339     62885     51955     44876     41736     46183     52996

 Vietnam                   46417     79469     63744       |     66693         .       20223     21492     34239     25960     25493     38475     49254

 Indonesia                 53486     67367     34150       |     47226         .       26677     21752     10508     24410     21038     15539     10422

 Cambodia                   6997      7499     19218       |     29587         .        1527     12784      8351      3832      2314     23951     44800

 Bangladesh                47959     25354     41845       |     17556         .       11051     25055     26726      6760      3838     13097     19104

 Philippines                9267     34311     14534       |     14800         .        9584      8754      5893      6735      7591      5508     16719

 Sri Lanka                 12548     15149      9301       |     13453         .        4005      5664      2698      3253      6679      6774      4839

 Malaysia                   4872     11368      3170       |      9629         .        4295       884      1796      1110      9210       417      3220

 El Salvador                4592      6128       997       |      8847         .        1574      1194       565       876      2981      5631      4755

 Peru                      10507      4724      7045       |      5129         .        1519      5944      1463      1571       992      4047      2220

 Guatemala                   429      1689      2684       |      4554         .         262       721      2010      1887      1874      2248       478

 Turkey                     1203      1713       518       |      4371         .        1048      1196       347       312      2484      1781       621

 Pakistan                   3600      3745      6802       |      3295         .        2610       962      1132      5617      2229      1066      3007

 Thailand                   9031     14002      1919       |      3094         .         866      2452       872       610       468      2485      3104

 _ASEAN                   130118    214016    136735       |    171344         .       64126     68125     61659     62657     66424     86380    127828

 _CBI                       7762      9306      4638       |     13876         .        3256      2387      3074      3071      5031      8178      5454

 _CAFTA                     7759      9215      4635       |     13786         .        2759      2385      3071      3071      5031      8088      5453

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            11487      6030      7698       |      5828         .        2108      6109      1979      1958      1408      4273      2761

 _SUB-SAHARA                2099       102       304       |       171         .         199       132       186        64        90        75       148