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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 447:  M/B WOOL TROUSERS/BREECHES/SHORTS
                                                      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                    101177     79750     99160       |     88011         .       38090     51533     37539     51288     38592     38055     46008

 China                     14258     10218     36521       |     32734         .       10022     18669     10462     19708     14402     12293     16524

 Mexico                    12995     10662     14358       |     13373         .        7283      7866      5674      6661      4805      7035      7613

 India                     11686      8226     11937       |     10234         .        5919      6216      5499      5705      4271      4704      4070

 Vietnam                   10062     10091      8930       |      7161         .        2818      2643      5142      3257      2624      3660      2371

 Bangladesh                 3673       400       911       |      3373         .         964       330       483       408      3126       247       264

 Italy                      5291      6434      4068       |      3342         .        1310      4193      1207      4953      1374      1662      1667

 Jordan                     4591      3352      3650       |      2995         .         623      3076      2383       816      2332       580       646

 Egypt                      6008      6204      2920       |      2793         .        1295      2728      1240      1306       902      1538      2633

 Thailand                   1186       790      1196       |      2111         .         499       713       452       472       971      1126      1319

 Dominican Republic         2051      1660      1878       |      2009         .         831       931      1064      1141         .      1429      1066

 Colombia                   4412      6382      1452       |      1977         .         243       741       635       712       937       999      1061

 Haiti                        69         0       393       |      1391         .         661       465       129       304       840       513       733

 Romania                     456      1255       625       |      1285         .         325       148       521       181       542       741        43

 Turkey                     1280       595       863       |       984         .         427       136       412       562       607       332       481

 Indonesia                  9748      4469      2862       |       349         .        3511      1431      1073      4236        59       290      3395

 _ASEAN                    22002     16262     13188       |      9685         .        6834      4935      6705      8001      3662      5132      7115

 _CBI                       2978      2137      3265       |      3729         .        2254      1719      1700      1601      1083      2009      2511

 _CAFTA                     2909      2137      2872       |      2338         .        1593      1254      1569      1297       243      1496      1778

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             4412      6382      1452       |      1977         .         249       744       635       712       937       999      1061

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