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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 459:  OTHER WOOL APPAREL
                                                      Data in Kg..

(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                    513230    305327    504429       |    462673         .      164057    200275    212400    261474    199419    211772    110228

 China                    407617    254024    387431       |    362664         .      107096    137693    162506    202130    155843    169052     81349

 India                     28587     12881     28653       |     26795         .        8623     22129      9729     10841     15676      9982      7450

 Vietnam                    4734      1549     18818       |     22301         .        4968      3055     12546      6602      5340     12705       518

 Italy                     12388      5804      8686       |     10951         .        9698      4157      5162      5148      5620      3346      5457

 United Kingdom             7547      3476     23408       |      9504         .        6229      4159      3734     20310      5391      2391      2069

 Indonesia                  1665       150      1102       |      4660         .          51      1077        37      1014      2399      1270         .

 Peru                       4192      4196      4059       |      4434         .        1659      2645      1810      1578      1839      2360      2784

 Philippines                3514       762      2095       |      3187         .         392       380      1235       961       320      2306      1482

 Nepal                      3478      2761      5114       |      2276         .        1683      1253      2304      2504       593      1111      2573

 Mexico                     2667       798      1652       |      1655         .        2373      1002      1243      1093       351       570       906

 Sweden                      308         0         0       |      1373         .           .         .         .         .         .      1373         .

 Ireland                    2175      1869      6811       |      1321         .        8044     14824      4688      1525       564       719       989

 Ecuador                      73       487       280       |       892         .         328       107       289       168       273       609       502

 Hong Kong                  2148      1756       455       |       860         .         131       612       374       286       421       255       723

 France                      874       441       626       |       834         .        2044       373       273       462       391       335       394

 _ASEAN                    12026      2653     22015       |     30289         .        5460      4539     13821      8588      8088     16386      2086

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             7647      8735      6919       |      5893         .        2277      3126      3230      3260      2382      3254      3737

 _SUB-SAHARA                1008       148       131       |       723         .          71       190         .        26       636        87         .

 _CBI                       1234      1176       765       |       624         .         261       133       766       432       181        13       250

 _CAFTA                     1234      1176       765       |       624         .         261        59       766       432       181        13       250