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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 445:  M/B SWEATERS, WOOL
                                                      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                    149193     33152     98403       |     99033         .       40055     41312     40249     56442     63451     23977     10411

 China                    114156     13109     77091       |     73399         .       29664     32276     30644     45281     47319     18910      7008

 Indonesia                 16330      8040       201       |      7840         .           .         .         .      4311      2936       841         .

 Bangladesh                 1392       280     10944       |      6418         .           .      4164      5213      2390      6418         .       400

 Italy                      9561      3664      4084       |      5004         .        5589      1158      1544      1499      3829      1109      1486

 Hong Kong                  1405       314       766       |      1093         .        1943      1129         .       678       354       733       209

 United Kingdom              790       712       877       |      1014         .         337       212       469       509       586       406        90

 Cambodia                      0         0         0       |       568         .           .        16         .         .       566         .       105

 Albania                     170       246       133       |       351         .          49       162        61       106       124       220       277

 Norway                       22        44       212       |       326         .          33        37        52       200        68       221        38

 Peru                        576       377       241       |       297         .          35       103       212        31       146       150       213

 Ireland                     522        80       320       |       283         .         357        61       262        43       236        42        35

 Taiwan                      284       399       298       |       236         .           .       266       298         .         .       236         .

 India                        31       149         9       |       230         .          27         .         .       134        25        71         .

 Morocco                     612        37         8       |       206         .           .         .         .         .         .       205         .

 Bulgaria                      4        20       136       |       204         .         109        48       139        48       126        75       103

 _ASEAN                    16736     12036       204       |      8543         .           .       191        12      4314      3569       911       109

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             1164       771       607       |       423         .         600       532       359       253       247       175       289

 _SUB-SAHARA                1385       456      1271       |       227         .         931       646       305       359       212         .         .

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

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