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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 414:  OTHER WOOL FABRICS
                                                      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                    237592    224071    198286       |    230241         .       70279     51295     80042     58863    132700     84136    107480

 Mexico                    64664     87696     72998       |     75021         .       22062     27059     34777     18657     31769     34232     49444

 China                     11648      2841      3359       |     65510         .       14671        40      2228      1911     56987      7951     18914

 United Kingdom            28268     22774     21360       |     18431         .       12352      5001     11786     11105     10919      6627     10603

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |     16965         .        2059      3068      5030      3547     10990      5919      1152

 Italy                      6654      3541      2396       |     11500         .         984       500       456      1039      2452      8971      3815

 Germany                   24589     16970      3031       |      9290         .         789      1038      1175      2213      7158      1554      2486

 Netherlands                6873      5907      6905       |      7537         .        6045      1907      2761      3284      4428      2729      1223

 Ireland                    5855      4059      3477       |      5352         .         820      2967      2392      2135      2231      2553      2723

 Korea, South              11967      8717     14105       |      4596         .        3030      3284      8439      5407      1332      3171      7656

 Hong Kong                   272         0         0       |      4036         .           .         .         .         .         .      4036       401

 Switzerland                2078      2569      1150       |      3083         .         372       344       609       580      1263      1819      1258

 New Zealand                3209      5607      7060       |      1647         .         251      1221      3762      2207       170      1444       833

 Japan                       569      1218      3455       |      1351         .        1642       715      1413      1795       320       997       581

 Spain                      2888     11118         0       |      1080         .        1091         .         .        23      1010        47        37

 Denmark                    2148      1953      1389       |      1043         .         381       760       613       660       403       640       561

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              811        42       615       |        45         .          30       333       616        38         .         .       287

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0        52       |        18         .           .         .        52         .         .        18         .

 _ASEAN                        2         0        36       |         .         .           .         .        37         .         .         .         .

 _CBI                         39         0         8       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                       39         0         8       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .