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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 400:  WOOL YARNS
                                                      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                    693483    517010    541786       |    427873         .      136219    220549    161976    322685    160973    240036    129081

 New Zealand              142699    119850    101573       |     56972         .       14393     28957     31037     43033     22509     34249     30576

 United Kingdom            50982     53194     44227       |     52639         .       20766     17713      4125     32191     29436     11442      5889

 China                     31906     71360    109600       |     48004         .       21730      1623     28991     79324     29452     18454      4338

 Peru                      42465     36808     28312       |     43997         .       14052     30725      9132     26988      9897     26838     23048

 Argentina                   859      4568       226       |     43898         .        2428         .         .       226      2649     41249        54

 Italy                     52218     28157     27312       |     38221         .       21410     18344     14039     13646     16047     19844     44041

 Portugal                      0         0     18050       |     28304         .           .         .     18050         .     28304         .         .

 Germany                   37182     35421     50192       |     22601         .       16123     23967      9070     65365      2205     20387      8624

 India                     65257      9167     18545       |     21987         .           .     48917     17160      1385        64     21923         .

 Mexico                    29671     17200     17384       |     15891         .          69     16224       138     14640      1040     14851         .

 Romania                   17138     14624       282       |     13559         .         555      7970        31       224       135     13271      2022

 South Africa               2355      1286      3315       |     11066         .        2108      1142      2383       357      9595      1463      1050

 Turkey                    22326     38520      2991       |      7676         .        4344      7799       847      5443       609      2195       448

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |      5591         .         348        82        97        60        92      5487        40

 Uruguay                    1646      2553      6288       |      4631         .        2075      1186      3316      1394      2480      2122      2091

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            42615     37257     28592       |     44260         .       14111     31039      9132     27224      9922     27075     23232

 _SUB-SAHARA                2355      1286      3315       |     11066         .        2108      1142      2383       357      9595      1463      1050

 _ASEAN                    40972         0       322       |       264         .           .       322         .     21607       264         .         .

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .