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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 440:  WOOL SHIRTS/BLOUSES, NOT-KNIT
                                                      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                      3828      2113      3331       |      7024         .        1932      2961      2200     14325      4514      1894      4265

 Israel                      418        55         0       |      3001         .           .         .         .         .      2000      1001         .

 Peru                         18        14         0       |      1144         .           .         .         .         .      1141         .         .

 India                        43        83      1694       |       863         .          32       274      1284       882       311       403       186

 China                      1384       592       637       |       735         .        1282       401       381       695       238       203       682

 Mexico                     1322       890       420       |       506         .          80       506       313       124       425        78       203

 Colombia                    211       186        24       |       203         .          11         .         .        12       203         .        51

 El Salvador                  44        90         0       |       108         .           .         .         .        16         .        92       121

 Cambodia                      0         0         0       |       108         .           .         .         .       108         .         .         .

 Italy                       170        80       185       |        99         .         234        45        98        70        40        47        70

 Hong Kong                     7         5         5       |        53         .           .         .         .         .        51         .         .

 France                       27         6        36       |        40         .          43        34        24        25        12        19        30

 Morocco                       4         5         3       |        25         .           .         .         .        13        13         .        10

 Turkey                       15        13        12       |        17         .          13         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Portugal                     11        18         8       |        16         .           .        31         .         .        16         .         .

 Sri Lanka                     0         0         0       |        15         .           .         .         .         .        15         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              229       200        24       |      1347         .          11         .         .        16      1344         .        60

 _CBI                         53        91       132       |       116         .           .      1594         .      1021         .        93       989

 _CAFTA                       53        91       132       |       116         .           .      1594         .        21         .        93       989

 _ASEAN                       22         0         0       |       112         .         103         .         .       109         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         4       |         .         .           .         .         .      4603         .         .         .