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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 438:  WOOL KNIT SHIRTS/BLOUSES
                                                      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                    392715    131196    326089       |    357378         .      126528    159414    145722    152732    191181    136709     76044

 China                    342405    118887    288142       |    328548         .      114110    120922    135628    136453    176484    124872     65103

 Italy                     14575      3531     14598       |      5981         .        3108     17062      1616      4608      4074      1792      1257

 Mexico                     3059      2244      6728       |      5158         .         274      1924      3341      3066      2550      2385      2855

 Vietnam                    5079       532      5598       |      4523         .         129      4163       740       704      1187      3335       741

 Madagascar                 2629        26       364       |      2533         .        2646       369         .      1154      1190       189         .

 Hong Kong                 10699      2356      2280       |      2481         .         958      3713       388      1068      1117      1207      3129

 Peru                       1163       468       915       |      1272         .          91       174       702        78      1244        27       248

 Bangladesh                  675        11      1537       |      1123         .          79      5296        13      1552        60       921        70

 Croatia                     115        13       733       |       944         .         210        73       623       193       505       318       202

 Tunisia                      35        51       112       |       855         .         109        54        40        86       821        20        16

 Romania                     687        52       607       |       845         .        1219       658       413       303       232       469       119

 Cambodia                   2355         0       477       |       619         .         537         .        25      1824       558        60       140

 France                      550        49       196       |       329         .         166       148       135       153       165       140       151

 Spain                        87       100       287       |       289         .          94        61       214       194       110       179        42

 Turkey                      449       109       331       |       280         .         111       217       175       117       125       143       125

 _ASEAN                     9539      1920      6307       |      5308         .         688      4456       769      2854      1788      3426      2195

 _SUB-SAHARA                2632        26       373       |      2533         .        2652       369         .      1155      1190       189         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             1499       628      1326       |      1462         .          93       247       782       344      1408        53       336

 _CBI                        122         7        96       |        12         .           .         .        96         .        12         .         .

 _CAFTA                      122         7        96       |        12         .           .         .        96         .        12         .         .