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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 347:  M/B COT. TROUSERS/BREECHES/SHORTS
                                                      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                   5751652   4960889   5465366       |   5313841         .     2653867   2501121   2432939   2694177   2346563   2389914   2388343

 China                    560632    588080   1205246       |   1176268         .      497528    486278    538269    553029    516333    557860    538503

 Mexico                  1199637   1093553   1024821       |   1133119         .      561028    472698    445004    558545    495860    519646    499783

 Bangladesh              1163137   1013632   1088097       |    958402         .      544474    459381    456846    569298    445609    392998    469576

 Pakistan                 312931    254565    308705       |    318064         .      100530    144696    133886    152631    151202    119293    112749

 Vietnam                  274383    199128    268680       |    238493         .      133282    137810     97846    123542    103397    103870     92268

 Egypt                    199907    188860    221818       |    205062         .       97725    140797     85066    119695     68018    114894     88091

 Cambodia                 279812    217392    174014       |    200385         .       68877     84499     78619    103428     64410    124795     49841

 Indonesia                127182    118521    181010       |    166085         .       99898     61300    108616     79170     78626     70878     70455

 Nicaragua                152552    111492    134095       |    127557         .       71836     81131     59230     81698     60883     52770     65236

 India                    125493    128316     78111       |    115080         .       44198     36802     35966     47195     47597     50017     70291

 Sri Lanka                119059    105975    119974       |     93024         .       56218     49176     65815     47203     36600     39573     40492

 Lesotho                  112824    115486     44711       |     91572         .       40271     38116     12004     26317     42496     36289     42796

 Dominican Republic       138311     95417     76072       |     91167         .       45787     42997     39598     34050     38751     41121     35654

 Honduras                 178984    187871     92358       |     67570         .       51854     58197     44645     30081     32143     30091     40677

 Philippines               64475     76678     37454       |     42479         .       15793     15046     14124     17786     17995     22621     21342

 _ASEAN                   855324    686198    701309       |    688834         .      368952    323076    312150    340920    277349    348296    258826

 _CBI                     603170    476135    472874       |    390190         .      247170    265493    231088    211200    187029    159217    170451

 _CAFTA                   569943    466329    431453       |    350913         .      228774    243550    210738    190623    170952    144918    156631

 _SUB-SAHARA              223731    198624    136858       |    149443         .       86579     74270     71468     50316     75402     57137    104718

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            79832     63689     46442       |     40555         .       20551     20051     25281     16255     17948     19724     18429