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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 338:  M/B KNIT SHIRTS, 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                  16822010  14271760  14586075       |  13747575         .     6074345   7171696   6505065   6829146   5902721   6226307   6703378

 Honduras                3283150   2944513   1865138       |   1675425         .      807330   1068516    947435    679666    569045    940654    873389

 China                   1051563    754769   1670948       |   1546939         .      565983    804436    756087    749236    732816    676596    769554

 El Salvador             1580941   1514796   1271623       |   1241325         .      535702    637459    570218    571955    548817    538772    513343

 Nicaragua                939471    854083    952245       |   1083404         .      483153    538332    386580    509503    502678    473134    366075

 Pakistan                1192537    978876   1036656       |   1057718         .      552039    547631    447734    577835    432445    410661    452869

 Haiti                   1797924   1510967   1670813       |   1045432         .      680474    805210    644348    937358    349347    448582    885549

 Bangladesh               912455    670944    818406       |    960103         .      339500    409046    417806    385305    514597    342459    389167

 India                    860623    877018    936147       |    742679         .      420942    414661    428321    357359    320215    343059    422952

 Vietnam                  688104    714722    787301       |    728258         .      207481    263566    330063    441689    319440    337134    336467

 Mexico                   857873    726503    635310       |    676780         .      273180    283557    297938    234362    357187    290578    375817

 Indonesia                708946    492223    717304       |    628737         .      179870    360365    258171    322579    268550    291222    220008

 Guatemala                457341    321215    404581       |    516266         .      216867    162785    156544    204263    183544    296290    269304

 Cambodia                 494258    354452    376474       |    363588         .      155922    196329    160031    169677    172490    155458    146768

 Peru                     291971    247537    199538       |    241204         .      110968     88022     89813    118048    135368     75472    124813

 Egypt                    188401    177402    205619       |    210421         .       65590    102704     95601    110796     57768    113845    105608

 _CBI                    8231852   7251592   6409337       |   5755031         .     2792937   3313119   2818237   2986604   2253682   2781310   3014394

 _CAFTA                  6429282   5735164   4738491       |   4708837         .     2112437   2507782   2173888   2049142   1904220   2332185   2128739

 _ASEAN                  2454694   2007831   2235173       |   2033379         .      726912    981304    937570   1066150    907947    920121    872798

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)           322399    272978    211887       |    252175         .      114559     94917     93612    128495    141204     80298    134665

 _SUB-SAHARA              221009    220674    160898       |    194750         .      102125     68978     82565    105461     64115    104861     42620