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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 340:  M/B COTTON SHIRTS, NOT KNIT
                                                      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                   3268186   2150225   2890432       |   2823024         .     1097506   1285253   1248541   1561960   1358849   1139617   1155046

 China                    716841    525898    938854       |    963662         .      384922    377594    392057    499905    469316    414851    343452

 Bangladesh               959792    349270    710924       |    542302         .      191702    335701    313408    353984    292122    168100    205145

 Vietnam                  220103    189005    215637       |    266765         .       64688    109823    103043    150773    135445    118828    105720

 Indonesia                296780    194938    219668       |    252992         .       92282     94214    115749    111341    131649     74928    114152

 India                    254268    199906    181441       |    182580         .       95582     75688     83747     95277     81300     77974     86744

 Sri Lanka                100796     70257     74126       |     81242         .       35029     38311     31986     35957     35360     33632     29990

 El Salvador               85904     72297     58882       |     66371         .       33051     29242     26491     23154     35549     26069     23650

 Philippines               54856     43172     48088       |     58707         .       20538     32465     16968     31360     21484     22197     16140

 Mauritius                 49650     48607     63239       |     51130         .       30752     15766     12856     46901     15631     31824     19762

 Hong Kong                 71032     60135     41092       |     44869         .       12462     16094     24732     12514     25019     16801     17047

 Thailand                  52123     34109     39447       |     41630         .        8027     16810     13172     30640      9857     15763     22478

 Malaysia                  66176     41881     55899       |     41382         .       30218     40356     20163     36739     18709     21398     37262

 Honduras                  39027     38584     26260       |     36247         .       12532     14993     11376     12783     15432     17652     18560

 Nicaragua                 48610     29080     43209       |     36115         .        9854     22328     14470     28456     12977     14552     31209

 Pakistan                  27167     13140     32769       |     26503         .       13438     15101     11633     19348     11371     11799     11273

 _ASEAN                   726966    551958    600037       |    676413         .      229691    295027    276347    378206    317505    267691    313764

 _CBI                     184631    150797    143161       |    148273         .       58926     72387     59844     69736     67342     63091     76712

 _CAFTA                   184047    150576    141250       |    146720         .       57881     71843     58628     69374     66925     62063     76221

 _SUB-SAHARA               69045     68183     72916       |     61827         .       34208     22040     17380     47513     22633     35009     20704

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             5649      3503      4053       |      4865         .         698      1483      2503      1044      2187      2526      1665