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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 448:  W/G WOOL SLACKS/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                     61283     33461     47844       |     43511         .       28921     39744     20704     16856     25987     15531     13215

 China                     16638      7205     18740       |     11919         .       15613     17967      7318      6613      7669      3871      5799

 India                      7280       865      5728       |     11008         .          22      7351      1863      2580      6638      3642        35

 Thailand                   9093      5490      4239       |      5277         .        1141      2644      2921       699      5106       167       371

 Philippines               12553      8087      2000       |      3043         .        1580      1523       306       884      2117       872       484

 Vietnam                    2622       717      4058       |      2828         .        4092      1014      2677       539       530      2255      1363

 Indonesia                  1315       150      4904       |      2282         .        3821       910      2291      1947       128      2154       234

 Mexico                      475       361      1701       |      1992         .         189      1642       453      1319       938      1040       353

 Jordan                     1077      2133      1174       |      1852         .           .       420       755       762      1277         .      1289

 Italy                      1028       815       735       |       720         .         588       336       463       372       288       350       472

 Sri Lanka                   464       320       397       |       423         .         537        14       398         .       221       202        59

 Egypt                       707         1       892       |       334         .          94       399         .       493         .       334         .

 Costa Rica                    0         0       438       |       290         .         154        52       386         .       290         .       450

 Turkey                      212       140        95       |       191         .          97        54        93        97        51       128        91

 Colombia                     61       499       172       |       187         .          21        46       157        20       177         .       594

 Romania                     565        94       143       |       161         .          79        96        31        72       111        50       171

 _ASEAN                    26260     14444     15201       |     13432         .       10634      6091      8195      4070      7881      5449      2452

 _CBI                        507       687      1634       |       539         .         308       972       607       103       476        20       553

 _CAFTA                      507       687      1634       |       539         .         308       972       606       103       476        20       553

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)               80       500       174       |       205         .          37        56       163        22       191        11       597

 _SUB-SAHARA                3590      5093         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .