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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 436:  WOOL DRESSES
                                                      Data in Doz.

(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                     55937     25722     49682       |     42975         .       23188     34065     21397     19306     26988     13481     16682

 China                     42188     16285     36134       |     29870         .       16125     18220     18605     12501     19248      8861      8869

 Vietnam                    5056      5326       696       |      6390         .        1771      8562        22         .      3860      2528      5566

 Philippines                2138      1149      2001       |      1579         .        1043      2689       136       252      1319         .        11

 Indonesia                    91        74       758       |      1318         .        1115      1053       139         .      1006       312       129

 Italy                       937       954      1103       |       839         .        1039       631       519       407       413       360       375

 India                        23        88       749       |       533         .          25        16        36       710       159       374       289

 Mexico                      353        59       419       |       408         .         104        68        94       331        37        78        41

 Spain                       115       103       192       |       307         .          56        57       139       161       150       147       117

 France                      170       110       290       |       281         .         212       164       145       195        95       157       117

 Hong Kong                  1364       407      2447       |       216         .          12      1902       224      1168       144        68         .

 Portugal                     31        88        65       |       122         .          80        19        49        55        21        98       181

 Turkey                      898         3        33       |       122         .         122        48        38         .        49        67         .

 Dominican Republic            0        48         0       |       118         .           .         .         .         .       118         .       317

 Tunisia                      18         0        58       |       106         .         130        28        28        27        13        93         .

 Morocco                      48        24        19       |       100         .          68        38        33        26        42        56        18

 _ASEAN                     8401      6794      5045       |      9324         .        3931     12393       420      1624      6222      2848      5723

 _CBI                          0       295        70       |       157         .           .         .        70         .       118        39       317

 _CAFTA                        0       295        70       |       157         .           .         .        70         .       118        39       317

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              100         7       172       |        89         .         126        33        29       140        82         .        22

 _SUB-SAHARA                   1         0         1       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .