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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 348:  W/G COTTON TROUSERS/SLACKS/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                   8088337   6617095   8186618       |   8017864         .     3340067   3896201   3556321   3882353   3594575   3623109   3677344

 China                   1588204   1517992   2812226       |   3009356         .     1137629   1301724   1247721   1348441   1307915   1406069   1491850

 Vietnam                  808879    743280    722037       |    773549         .      257944    393409    294918    330245    344761    357382    315267

 Cambodia                 603553    513411    498203       |    552663         .      173479    234878    165269    261781    196646    303342    165899

 Indonesia                563482    500438    739895       |    508959         .      244801    345616    280759    314521    233191    206475    244309

 Bangladesh               441341    470713    530762       |    444384         .      277411    239690    264793    278678    249276    144611    278801

 Mexico                   543921    356955    407299       |    414633         .      176403    150154    168810    230900    193744    175591    170663

 India                    209014    224355    295428       |    309228         .       97109     96362    138580    115247    133093    152713     81758

 Pakistan                 196227    179830    130368       |    208116         .       69164     75419     51826     83774     95562     80588     98530

 Sri Lanka                235256    277741    190112       |    180648         .      106426     79590     84921     96125     72396     96730     86203

 Nicaragua                239351    140370    205110       |    176462         .      119909    113991     84991     96852     79255     85534     62399

 Egypt                    257592    228337    236146       |    171908         .       79320    106479    131124     91438     50395     87589    128302

 Honduras                 171793     85191    150670       |    162701         .       47933     68020     82162     48507     78810     70654     63174

 El Salvador               59896     48482    211803       |    149568         .       50177    101266     88105     94440     82826     59270     41884

 Guatemala                223857    110860    157795       |    139359         .       30158    100242     45939     96140     68363     53869     59451

 Jordan                   180310    131065    122737       |    132297         .       72656     61826     50125     67723     72170     47523    114816

 _ASEAN                  2371438   2123846   2178836       |   2058436         .      758708   1081681    842795   1020882    868858    976617    787785

 _CBI                     705943    394024    766418       |    673258         .      262822    399179    320850    348308    331908    289697    245170

 _CAFTA                   704778    393308    731308       |    633561         .      251029    386945    301267    339778    313781    269617    228046

 _SUB-SAHARA              843791    358447    319390       |    279998         .      201159    212923    162891    127321    141119    115014    109781

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            21085     27629     31212       |     23481         .       15646     14603     15461     10859     10983     11751     15101