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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 432:  WOOL HOSIERY
                                                      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                    172712     68505    100626       |    105373         .       40340     32146     32777     64975     75297     27558     33013

 China                     42205      7631     34686       |     32454         .        7026      5152      9445     22906     23483      8970     12908

 Pakistan                   6707      1432       195       |     25262         .           .         .         .      5193     25262         .      5298

 Korea, South              72341     10254     32133       |     15487         .       12601     12449      8378     21925      9676      5517      2947

 Italy                     18071     11556      7451       |      9203         .       11424      9474      2659      1960      5087      4081      4493

 South Africa               2145     18338      2542       |      6091         .        2143         .      2542       182      4782      1309        20

 Mexico                     6575      2095      3532       |      5377         .         681       858       500      2994      2050      1733      1983

 United Kingdom             7253       896      2596       |      2498         .         483      1175       371      2173       303      2082       637

 Ireland                      85       190        71       |      1342         .          50        75        43        94      1037       257       215

 Portugal                    450      2184       333       |      1340         .         259        26         .       333      1292        48       506

 Peru                       1189      1726      5414       |      1314         .         382       762      4659       488      1164       142      1988

 Thailand                   4956      2181      1163       |      1251         .         525      1033       371      1167       350       901       682

 Colombia                     75      1394       400       |       679         .           .         .       202       200        18       661         .

 Turkey                     1330        83        19       |       426         .        3529         .         .        19         .       418        48

 New Zealand                  36       246        14       |       417         .           .         .        14         .         .       417       107

 Germany                     688       617      1260       |       389         .          90       282      1023        40       206       180       709

 _SUB-SAHARA                2145     18345      2542       |      6093         .        2143         .      2542       182      4782      1311        20

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             3628      6986      5918       |      2050         .         479       771      4965       691      1197       845      2008

 _ASEAN                     8027      3469      1163       |      1352         .         525      1033       371      1167       351      1001       731

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

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