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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 350:  COTTON DRESSING GOWNS, ROBES ETC.
                                                      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                    866451    580207    670458       |    799672         .      202540    343394    283011    298712    338124    369569    424064

 China                    439885    289295    349806       |    376008         .       97028    158545    139683    142188    143811    197561    273600

 Vietnam                  142865     80272    113850       |    188573         .       33714     83107     48835     62072     70835     87033     61526

 Indonesia                 13021     16673     45671       |     64624         .       18944     18572     32983     21440     24253     27938     33737

 Malaysia                  38301     28552      9978       |     37627         .        8020      3920      2606      3598     22905     11124     10073

 India                     71199     51666     21394       |     29044         .        6968      9209     12991      8583     14869     13346      9658

 Cambodia                  34720     24334     31478       |     26050         .        5171     14180      2435     18484     19026      7024      3331

 Sri Lanka                 10583      7728     38048       |     25835         .        2763     26204     14485     16179     17304      7278     13563

 Pakistan                  19690     15376     12056       |     24748         .        3617      4873      6327     11787     10270      7373      7275

 Turkey                    22105     17205     13789       |      6307         .        2707      8573      2780      3704      3712      2063      2436

 Bangladesh                18714      6053      3876       |      4975         .        2862      2185      2512      1583       806      3667      2632

 Guatemala                 18502     10439      8382       |      3524         .       14178      8057      3339      1629      3461        63      1758

 El Salvador                2908      4265      2112       |      2749         .         849      1276       368      1404      2299       448       744

 Dominican Republic         1301       633      1979       |      2213         .         412        26         .      1979      2213         .         .

 Peru                        749       536      2740       |      1592         .         634       311      1545      2551       372      1220       102

 Thailand                   4360      2975      1756       |      1112         .         483       326      1372       385       141       963      2062

 _ASEAN                   240132    162397    212794       |    318266         .       69596    121841     96590    106178    137345    134177    111394

 _CBI                      22863     15378     12473       |      8487         .       15439      9359      3707      5012      7974       511      2502

 _CAFTA                    22863     15358     12473       |      8486         .       15439      9359      3707      5012      7973       511      2502

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              951       641      2814       |      1770         .         642       387      1551      2622       389      1381       113

 _SUB-SAHARA                 183         0       328       |       329         .           .       317         .         .       166       163         .