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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 443:  M/B SUITS, WOOL
                                                      Data in Nos.

(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                    493744    349163    541481       |    345611         .      230513    219126    245479    248562    161261    143074    147595

 China                    159374     69247    227401       |    159678         .       98916     67295    123805     91901     82448     58897     46037

 Mexico                    69753     69577     96067       |     64079         .       43676     37119     41902     46900     16977     35660     45337

 Vietnam                   72950     56157     55386       |     27984         .       24253     33112     29134     33729     14062      8230      9269

 Italy                     22824     21103     18746       |     20578         .       19088      8377      7994      5860      6453     13164      6574

 Bangladesh                11312       898     26094       |     19316         .       27046         .     13801     12293     13034      6282      3435

 India                     28919     23771     25337       |     13918         .        6936     12393      8202      9706      8468      5038     13668

 Indonesia                 58226     52975     42242       |     10686         .        4578     40693      8168     29014      7158      2730     10310

 Turkey                    14508     12891      2330       |      9232         .         912      1272       961      1809      4528      4704      4791

 Pakistan                      0         0         0       |      2890         .           .         .         .      2890         .         .         .

 Jordan                       14        33      1589       |      2591         .          21      3723      1589         .       995      1596         .

 Hong Kong                  2493      2260      2274       |      2575         .         932       981       798      1291      1106       992      1211

 Philippines                3906       712      7224       |      2219         .         214      5118       482      5029      1279       940       847

 Switzerland                2420      2364      1474       |      2186         .         616       557       540       642      1014      1172       845

 Egypt                       666       170      1416       |      1603         .           .        85      1421         .      1603         .        36

 Slovenia                   1209      1142       973       |      1201         .         326      1104         .        84       981       220       199

 _ASEAN                   137466    112266    104939       |     40953         .       29083     79175     37784     67885     22515     11910     20435

 _CBI                          3         0      7947       |       853         .          36      1377      2266      4309       167       682       575

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

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              214      4871         4       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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