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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 352:  COTTON UNDERWEAR
                                                      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                  22877076  19263147  17040042       |  17421175         .     6953825   7402525   7463763   7596624   7812095   7982679   8033325

 Honduras                4504600   3656562   2147966       |   3261069         .      786306    892799   1009574    894759   1575393   1485830   1433055

 El Salvador             3717071   2505678   1854752       |   2022363         .      726271    903948    819343    788943    941950    917108    849885

 China                   1396678    733236   1696758       |   1456894         .      714367    775362    703423    824819    692537    570437    842453

 Bangladesh              1744922   1568581   1505682       |   1415311         .      663995    537287    748216    748210    618332    542167    430637

 Thailand                1316975   1415292   1638736       |   1366859         .      703365    603034    607092    683306    535502    760212    683963

 India                   1812140   2077277   1663617       |   1343721         .      639536    573455    744293    553621    674802    596435    787817

 Vietnam                  743023   1189989   1165246       |   1230716         .      552498    558283    610347    609130    510212    554731    571312

 Haiti                    859224    601552    779018       |    795078         .      265855    407329    301693    395985    297813    372121    400802

 Dominican Republic      1018992   1048435    754848       |    677033         .      341175    308913    297716    335213    338418    315071    298200

 Sri Lanka               1005960    817338    825623       |    598100         .      152076    457303    239724    317020    302198    277567    349847

 Cambodia                 961105    715653    513806       |    564075         .      242476    269371    185026    254376    257546    256872    170185

 Pakistan                 675601    407659    430880       |    449117         .      151764    184506    149736    226480    189532    191104    140413

 Costa Rica               488656    412648    471393       |    396589         .      221944    233077    206332    210333    119448    213568    216372

 Philippines              173903    111605    172057       |    283600         .      100947     45460    125365     90342     92917    190683    198455

 Nicaragua                236214    208976    252992       |    274932         .      109908    137126    102125    173565    107510    110283     95095

 _CBI                   10924761   8517901   6368837       |   7448846         .     2513737   2912978   2796731   2843550   3385444   3419704   3304049

 _CAFTA                  9992231   7839039   5589802       |   6653755         .     2247882   2505649   2495021   2447565   3087631   3047570   2903236

 _ASEAN                  3984911   4045949   3830317       |   4035185         .     1831698   1599933   1745454   1750562   1673931   2053628   1816654

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            68284     75268     66374       |     86623         .       30477     38412     30449     35608     18437     52132     47728

 _SUB-SAHARA               19604     33240     11495       |     16007         .           .         .         .     11495         .     16007      5125