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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 431:  WOOL GLOVES/MITTENS
                                                      Data in Dpr.

(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                     87659     47418    150627       |    105035         .       39838     36923     41621     44834     64088     27021     21737

 China                     71293     27674    121524       |     53105         .       30933     30516     32710     34551     22752     18389     10670

 Pakistan                   1250      2921      2167       |     32822         .        2266         .         .         .     32000       822      2537

 Philippines                5499      1766      3821       |      5184         .         410       578      2199      1756      2307      1405      1250

 Nepal                      3483      3104      8300       |      4920         .        2894      1785      3047      4387      2071      2513      2918

 Germany                       0         0         0       |      2000         .        1000      1011      1000      1000      1000      1000      1000

 Mexico                        0      1440         0       |      1081         .           .         .         .         .      1080         .         .

 Bolivia                    1103       584      1534       |      1056         .         748       158      1200       399       693       300       483

 Macau                         0         0         0       |       985         .           .         .         .         .         .       985         .

 Italy                       635      7613      9640       |       871         .         164        37       122       142       795        42        30

 Korea, South                510         0       284       |       748         .          70      1162         .       285       680        68        10

 Haiti                       732         0      1183       |       536         .         393         .       729       454         .       536       388

 Peru                        578       684      1273       |       527         .         279       288       254      1340       354       168      1486

 India                        45       333         0       |       326         .           .         .         .         .       119       207       261

 Hong Kong                     6         0        90       |       140         .          31         .        90         .         .       139        17

 France                        1       438         6       |       133         .          25         .        21        14        33        94         .

 _ASEAN                     5511      1766      4046       |      5287         .         677      1014      2222      1809      2348      1464      1387

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             1778      1268      2807       |      1659         .        1048       533      1508      1757      1090       501      2101

 _CBI                        768         0      1183       |       536         .         393         .       729       454         .       536       388

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .