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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 349:  BRASSIERES, OTHER BODY SUPPORT GAR
                                                      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                    561463    505161    614646       |    439954         .      377714    222369    270718    256940    184667    236063    271053

 China                    205088    166014    361269       |    193300         .      190156    126176    160965    155051     88756     91331     96286

 Bangladesh               142998    131526    109193       |    131620         .      134685     49882     53214     43422     50338     78941     93233

 Thailand                  58163     45555     43184       |     47854         .       16495     17554     17983     19821     15473     31150     23751

 Indonesia                 54520     67928     64818       |     42262         .       20349     14756     22841     26026     19300     21858     38428

 Sri Lanka                 33321     28701     12919       |      7231         .        5708      2973      9706      2720      2330      4804      2542

 Honduras                   6841     11600      2214       |      3841         .        4195      2525       794      1414      1806      2035      2662

 Costa Rica                 9729      6779      2766       |      2536         .        1063      1764      1319       747      1302       965      2278

 Philippines                6025      8051      1339       |      2058         .           .       300       105       225      1392       666       674

 India                       186       123       762       |      1544         .         301       109         .      1275       225      1052         .

 Vietnam                    6141      7217       955       |      1376         .         450       179        69       888      1052       324      6508

 Malaysia                   2334      5184      7174       |      1313         .           .      4632       834      1708         .      1313       217

 El Salvador                3606      2695      1326       |      1102         .         351       287       266      1280       762        76       229

 Brazil                      733        40      1360       |       838         .        1014         .       525       835       625       213        68

 Mexico                    21969     17049      2839       |       681         .        1186       217      1291       643       204       318      1852

 Turkey                     1396       497       432       |       555         .         266       187       187        61       120       435       497

 _ASEAN                   129124    134673    117584       |     94863         .       37436     37492     41832     48782     37217     55311     69578

 _CBI                      21733     22952      6672       |      7771         .        5660      4886      2401      3515      4021      3217      5889

 _CAFTA                    21155     22171      6366       |      7637         .        5660      4602      2379      3503      3887      3217      5882

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             1072       221       481       |       512         .          99        63       379       321       155       195       104

 _SUB-SAHARA                 615         0         2       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .