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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 342:  COTTON SKIRTS
                                                      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                    271625    453635    278207       |    461790         .      183805    177906    119651    143336    197917    225320    220555

 China                    135079    224588    130492       |    303626         .       73647     95784     59863     72423    133139    146123    100479

 India                     32553     37723     37686       |     46682         .       31864     18306     17982     21188     20403     22206     16830

 Vietnam                   17791     39674     19987       |     28017         .        7103     11804      9853      4504      9175     17666     53865

 Bangladesh                13993     27686     24239       |     27102         .       27807     10704      8124     15332      9654     15630     22605

 Thailand                   6157      2296      1767       |     10273         .         771       450       371      1462      2423      7847      3130

 Indonesia                 17275      9381     22440       |     10251         .       17479     13372      8728      5420      8233      1694      6094

 Cambodia                  12620      8858     15011       |      7745         .        2663      9334      5130      3877      4216      2154      1727

 Egypt                       260      4298       709       |      5775         .         975        36        51      3014        63      3412       348

 Malaysia                    508      3456      2070       |      4097         .        3672       466         .      2783      2659       725         .

 Guatemala                  1527     21140      2299       |      3330         .        3023      1387       620      1919      2028       818       464

 Mexico                     3071     10964      1688       |      2412         .        1422      1810      1432      3479       247      1071       778

 Sri Lanka                  5591      7296      4444       |      2259         .        3380      2391      1537      2325      1165      1017      3953

 Philippines                5055      6707      4087       |      1869         .        2527      2833      1146      1112       641      1050      3307

 Turkey                     2188       903       328       |       956         .         656       441       205       315       665       172       234

 United Arab Emirates       1271       353      1601       |       956         .         748       693       733       678       472       431        42

 _ASEAN                    60937     71039     65362       |     62255         .       34225     38258     25228     19158     27350     31136     68123

 _CBI                       9540     57418      2861       |      4574         .        5256      2022       789      2745      2412      1671       697

 _CAFTA                     9445     57398      2861       |      4425         .        5252      2021       788      2745      2408      1526       644

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              691       207       578       |       957         .         312       536       200       185       483       472        72

 _SUB-SAHARA                  90       199        32       |        40         .          46        27        68        41        16        24      3265