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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 359:  OTHER COTTON APPAREL
                                                      Data in Kg..

(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                   4413283   3241851   4219866       |   3717879         .     1991072   2323713   1964262   1929569   1678793   1610993   1366280

 China                   2072143   1490315   2094064       |   1970099         .     1014354   1314559    871042    968023    874690    839579    544270

 Pakistan                 797313    502371    525544       |    537605         .      291044    242258    245259    274505    250857    253654    290792

 Mexico                   424484    370771    366742       |    362956         .      141940    186373    189698    173170    168529    162550    184879

 Vietnam                  280682    186330    243485       |    174446         .      114189    150808     96334     91805    107707     55534    106578

 India                    111670    149965    206174       |    130950         .       56645     92756    110666     75653     57590     60923     58283

 Bangladesh               107516     65032    150956       |    125729         .      120037     73228    107626     86806     51174     28685     17348

 Cambodia                 118168     83319    154839       |    119165         .      104765     60676     82890     43063     26286     90148     58673

 Indonesia                 63245     23334    240786       |     69282         .       38383     84081    130064    117518     37117     16857     17448

 Honduras                  39428     59915     39968       |     30702         .       15670     23183     17190     17398     12887     10816      6428

 Taiwan                    42824     45930     18124       |     30369         .       14539     14808     10627     10427     16478     12338      7479

 Philippines               42060     26837     30314       |     24734         .       14044      9704     18568      6517     14566      8529      7657

 Madagascar                42882     21659     16353       |     18397         .        1322     15391      3902      7638      7612     10785     13796

 Hong Kong                 23787     24393       961       |     16927         .         457      7256       418      4607      3612      9038       885

 Korea, South              17133     15625     26611       |     15978         .       10572      8230     19683      4783     10274      5642      4384

 Guatemala                 10236     21200      6437       |     14632         .        1850      3138      1630      4871      6672      7775      1506

 _ASEAN                   532882    346683    683308       |    400130         .      284272    313483    335804    262798    192467    176627    198161

 _CBI                      75721     98995     69520       |     64082         .       25321     38453     43041     31046     28781     27529     22150

 _CAFTA                    73981     98977     69435       |     63988         .       25313     38428     42956     31044     28705     27510     22148

 _SUB-SAHARA               43923     22732     18628       |     19378         .        2018     17307      4173      7950      8012     11362     14511

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             7820      2538      3112       |      1389         .        1203      1458      1849       904       538       748      1541