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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 410:  WOOL WOVEN FABRIC
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                   1347326    986920    748121       |    754135         .      211768    233150    253492    350262    382843    280065    288474

 Mexico                   432708    248495    315639       |    230288         .       37903     66524    130434    111720    103844     96929     94848

 Italy                    251466    270620    113153       |    206244         .      124075     22559     37106     73391    129613     70511     88761

 China                    298795    200974    118208       |    130399         .       31796     98867     50761     75571     56875     57601     58653

 Korea, South              42923     12918     18062       |     62212         .         923      6796      5536     41526      7827     23902      3225

 India                     13965     15499      4531       |     40788         .        1621      1335      1725      1688     32832      7957      5457

 Chile                     45822     40801     32178       |     26328         .        1356     22071      9580     15663     14382     11187     13387

 United Kingdom            34101     43629     19090       |     22563         .        4791      9646      4374     21098      9117      6467      7285

 Germany                   27796     14620      1198       |     15669         .         802      1027        78      1037     15182       487      8134

 Uruguay                   14884      4754      5492       |      5525         .        2383       265      3555      1937      4206      1319      1406

 South Africa              10634      8927      2691       |      4649         .        3242       317      2301       390      4415       234       356

 Japan                     10308      2221      4078       |      1641         .         724       752      1017      3150       339      1269      1206

 Peru                        358       100       254       |      1049         .           .         .       247         .      1038        11       174

 Ireland                    1751       482       493       |       897         .          31       322        45       193        24       873        45

 Vietnam                    1191         0         0       |       742         .           .         .         .       742         .         .         .

 Portugal                   1658      6327       526       |       641         .           .        36       526         .       641         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA               10634      8927      2691       |      4668         .        3242       317      2301       390      4434       234       356

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              358       100       610       |      1406         .           .         .       247       363      1039        11       174

 _ASEAN                     1299         0      3555       |       742         .           .         .      3555       742         .         .         .

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

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