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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 341:  W/G COT. SHIRTS/BLOUSES,N-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                   1245401   1292729   1775437       |   1590867         .      850988    926967    750206    733067    712652    741518    856381

 China                    618730    705067    812805       |    829209         .      446947    455390    322420    352123    370695    385715    451169

 India                    147171    157656    306862       |    249404         .      135442    153182    144302    120306    121072    111083     78905

 Indonesia                139270    109265    217094       |    151907         .      101115     98859     95546     57090     81480     54766     70922

 Bangladesh                73499     69948    168537       |     93258         .       58230     82294     85872     74570     22590     62405     73167

 Vietnam                   82902     74568     80020       |     77117         .       37444     42123     34673     28993     31465     36353     41091

 Cambodia                  26858     20557     40730       |     39112         .       11993     19854     13605     17262     21199     16679     24127

 Thailand                  33447     32335     28194       |     26800         .       13973     10858      5274     26021     13409     11307     14889

 Pakistan                  18987     13132     31057       |     25301         .        8922     19722     13736     11321      8674     13663     33911

 Mexico                    10060      8401     18158       |     21856         .        6262      6278      7553     11163     10339      9638     11155

 Sri Lanka                 17466     29894     11080       |     11676         .        6367      5450      4890      3462      8047      2551     10436

 Nicaragua                  5187      4495      7113       |     10849         .         545      3640      1907      3789      2316      7918     18273

 Honduras                  12966      8914      8201       |     10830         .        3405      5598      2970      4120      5249      4581      4434

 Philippines                8315     19169      6959       |      8106         .        3479      2440      3748      1156      2472      5314      3848

 Dominican Republic         2367      1445      1243       |      2992         .         190       989       523      1277      1292      1154       650

 Malaysia                   9227      8717      9039       |      2852         .        4481      6056      1234      5953       827      2024       346

 _ASEAN                   303581    264611    382036       |    305949         .      173070    180190    154081    136476    150906    126443    155225

 _CBI                      22746     19030     19116       |     28754         .        6020     12552      6843     10310      9890     16559     27562

 _CAFTA                    22746     19014     18821       |     27323         .        5846     11881      6608     10249      9859     15159     24678

 _SUB-SAHARA               10009      7777     10038       |      5922         .        1663      5416      1714      4556      2580      3281      2063

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             2655      2954      1318       |      1393         .         535       534       750       291       584       785       979