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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 345:  COTTON SWEATERS
                                                      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                   2213391    890648   1979763       |   1898000         .      654349    725675    864674   1021150   1031615    672294    477621

 China                   1287740    507259   1775879       |   1651148         .      558411    648823    776414    899031    907065    585285    428107

 Bangladesh               104378    101570     57236       |     83695         .       26838     18308     24821     27558     56428     20599     13327

 Indonesia                 77728     16243     55539       |     52206         .       11312     12575     23020     37568     12345     33433      4512

 Thailand                  46483     20578     12874       |     32805         .       18328      2742      4022     11295     16260     13579      1188

 Korea, South             112311     33622      2093       |     27913         .        1937      2302       579     20586      3881      9191         .

 Vietnam                   15935      6467     16165       |     14965         .       14856      6524      9576      5115     11807      1104      8994

 Pakistan                    660      3513      5539       |      8857         .         723      5395      3010      1831      7671      1083      1540

 Hong Kong                449337    136377      8219       |      6844         .        2538      3332      4695       332      6073       767      2665

 India                      3698      2073     10232       |      3209         .        3812      3368      5292      3399      1545      1094      7867

 Philippines                 136      3707      1090       |      3053         .          37       725       463       306      1001      2052       526

 Jordan                     5208         0      9302       |      2231         .        2965     10950      3122      1401      1245       986      5203

 Taiwan                    41539     25459      3210       |      2004         .        2999       429       107      3060      1404       223       242

 Peru                       5778      3257      5957       |      1787         .        1363      3148      1901      4336       845       577       967

 El Salvador                4388       563      3150       |      1457         .        2649         .      1978      1186      1451         .         .

 Cambodia                   5837     15754      4286       |      1390         .        2032      1324      3239      1028       580       340       404

 _ASEAN                   147327     62767     89954       |    104421         .       46611     23905     40320     55312     41993     50510     15625

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             6311      3419      7028       |      2041         .        1905      3653      2210      4824       891       739      1188

 _CBI                       4400      1864      3611       |      1785         .        3035       409      2177      1493      1487       198       290

 _CAFTA                     4400      1864      3608       |      1735         .        3035       404      2174      1493      1487       148       290

 _SUB-SAHARA                 223       745      2914       |      1050         .         745      1540       498      1198      1028         .         .