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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 444:  W/G 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                     32635     12066     27240       |     39934         .       32248     16254     14510      5346     35343      4534     18876

 China                     24596     10896     18822       |     31665         .       31950      9546     12047      5063     28225      3437     18266

 Thailand                      0         0      5017       |      6005         .           .      5013         .         .      5988        17         .

 Vietnam                       0         0      1704       |      1760         .           .      1088      1406         .       854       906         .

 Sri Lanka                  6381         0       690       |       205         .           .         .       690         .       205         .         .

 Italy                       779       900       427       |       129         .         134       403       203        54        43        66       491

 France                       70         5        15       |        38         .           .         .         .        10         .        30         .

 Bolivia                       0         0         0       |        32         .           .         .         .        32         .         .         .

 India                         0         0         0       |        25         .           .         .         .         .         .        25        57

 Chile                         0         0        14       |        24         .           .         .        15         .         .        22         .

 Romania                     125         2       386       |        23         .          25       173       137        96         .        17         .

 Canada                       84        42        57       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Mexico                        4         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Guatemala                     0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Haiti                         .         .         .       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Colombia                      0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                        0         0      6721       |      7765         .          42      6101      1406         .      6842       923         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |        32         .           .         .         .        32         .         .         .

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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

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