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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 442:  WOOL SKIRTS
                                                      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                     30352     14775     39567       |     26387         .       15606     18166     13812     17421     18406      6603      6709

 China                     17215      8830     20988       |     10017         .        8863     13145      8331      5364      6445      2486      1861

 Indonesia                  1773         0      7786       |      3869         .          22       484      1382      6084      2758      1111         .

 India                      4249       478      2238       |      3361         .        1175       459         .      2585      1959      1402      1090

 Vietnam                     890       281      1496       |      2903         .         731       743       570       726      2592       310      1530

 Philippines                2242      1841      2745       |      2585         .        1234      1550       962       950      2223       235       714

 Thailand                    897      1354       883       |      1526         .        1806       160       699       158      1381       144       249

 Italy                       455       298       516       |       363         .         390       267       309       287       197       117       176

 Mexico                      244       406       260       |       212         .         106       109       214       103        76       136       142

 Turkey                       16        46       108       |       201         .         105        57        85        67        83       111        30

 Korea, South                  0        10        72       |       175         .          27        78         .         .        64       109        97

 Spain                       117        96       106       |       173         .          86        54       115        69        78        90        65

 France                      119        39       149       |       128         .          86        55        61        93        49        65        46

 Croatia                       1         4         9       |       123         .          18         .         .        13       112         .         .

 Romania                      70        34       175       |        87         .          78        43       127        42        71        14        20

 Costa Rica                    0         0         0       |        86         .           .         .         .         .        73        13        32

 _ASEAN                     5802      3476     12910       |     10884         .        3793      2937      3616      7918      8955      1800      2493

 _CBI                        133         1       516       |       130         .           .        90         .       470        79        13        32

 _CAFTA                      133         1       516       |       130         .           .        90         .       470        79        13        32

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)               41        38        63       |        23         .          45        17        56        14        15         .        33

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