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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 339:  W/G KNIT SHIRTS/BLOUSES, 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                  18665918  16556309  17459774       |  18511282         .     7447677   7941414   7492944   8380725   8729534   7974677   7853869

 China                   2648971   2454140   3996585       |   5053614         .     1734585   1793408   1754523   1970707   2570617   1988487   2064184

 Vietnam                 2148628   2380802   2347476       |   2525474         .      940231   1031406    950545   1247657   1096760   1119418   1051322

 Mexico                  1488127   1209776   1227843       |   1396063         .      533003    596459    557648    571991    627062    618472    608240

 Guatemala               1386139   1166818   1352711       |   1336624         .      571601    476365    553584    685875    666144    609280    501739

 Indonesia               1396322   1377439   1442369       |   1298262         .      687047    792985    575262    761289    569414    539382    622996

 Cambodia                1247889   1221494   1293721       |   1076590         .      405037    670068    470177    630344    455603    533045    495641

 Honduras                1469228   1124596   1119066       |   1042237         .      518000    516322    578947    407180    460725    469626    545301

 Nicaragua                465185    599470   1025466       |    681698         .      293885    323742    428855    397580    330768    293165    324047

 India                    768785    831897    580212       |    636713         .      336006    295618    235374    260538    272863    307562    253611

 Bangladesh               651934    469877    569904       |    464506         .      224781    213463    257178    256556    259068    160899    244800

 El Salvador              774235    698777    380059       |    433058         .      160457    164487    182460    167696    229132    178168    209323

 Jordan                   409175    173420    217213       |    376404         .      130998    134260     44952    128462    209587    141912    147205

 Pakistan                 460484    332367    316737       |    359852         .      119094    152270    167798    119230    161407    159541    143478

 Peru                     451613    238308    252032       |    349588         .      183334    131733    121490    137412    174409    144835     94421

 Philippines              399223    304155    216817       |    234889         .       85180    105677     84733    124516    103576    113674     60081

 _ASEAN                  5836561   5876031   5631181       |   5571320         .     2239635   2761698   2242793   2909718   2428423   2507785   2411865

 _CBI                    4302445   3686144   4007829       |   3603830         .     1622145   1541482   1795977   1719519   1737546   1603341   1607746

 _CAFTA                  4235812   3671887   3977823       |   3564960         .     1572326   1527934   1780749   1703887   1725983   1580969   1593622

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)           471361    251731    262732       |    361743         .      188623    140468    127880    141809    180446    150877     97599

 _SUB-SAHARA              395986    361340    171420       |    142724         .      151134     80953     86464     88125     91194     39047     41250