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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 446:  W/G 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                    673225    216554    439298       |    432159         .      153740    175053    193135    203721    249776    132564     99716

 China                    619936    190089    414682       |    418985         .      130206    164618    184217    191726    241734    127981     94882

 Peru                       1927      1295      1402       |      1769         .         519       453       871       597       884       708       604

 Italy                      4039      3553      2063       |      1722         .        1357       546      1185       814       853       756       718

 Vietnam                     662         0       502       |      1289         .        4548         .         .       500      1289         .         .

 Ecuador                    1643      1233      2000       |       953         .         432       638       963       883       376       552       297

 Norway                      614       190       101       |       862         .          27        55        60        45        35       815       116

 Turkey                      259       110      1742       |       846         .          77       199       315      1846       790        34       427

 Madagascar                   19      3249      2343       |       842         .        1602       160      1102      1082       840         .         .

 Pakistan                      0         0         0       |       804         .           .         .         .         .       804         .         .

 Hong Kong                 25439      5596      3233       |       674         .        1075      2444       375       766       506       150       372

 Romania                    1083       108       174       |       615         .         451       361        97       148       235       302       114

 United Kingdom              601       422      1388       |       471         .        1072      1490       812       257       231       222       144

 Ireland                     354       467      2670       |       402         .         170      1226       260      2363       263       133       192

 Mexico                      237       152        68       |       275         .          54        15        66        15       119       156        46

 Indonesia                    91       579       739       |       211         .        2100       986         .        23        78       132        20

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             4527      2788      3591       |      2869         .        1087      1195      1859      1643      1279      1382      1019

 _ASEAN                     3359      4668      1397       |      1586         .        9130      1028       114       581      1420       162        24

 _SUB-SAHARA                  23      3335      2432       |       844         .        1620       160      1190      1083       841         .         .

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

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