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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 600:  TEXTURED FILAMENT YARN
                                                      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                   7422920   5727508   7336027       |   2932963         .     1560225   1513608   1336049   1877865   1551639   1151426   1948229

 Mexico                  1056112   1009361   1072434       |    858821         .      542738    501349    412570    533075    478180    343231    935935

 Taiwan                   635493    373997    423254       |    365850         .      221344    254666    194853    329081    162373    162710    235931

 India                    453070    342223    208424       |    303824         .       88663     26461     85765    116379    119917    183907    105618

 Indonesia                518000    304599    368922       |    300426         .      122485    170579    189800    311969    195119     82533    115766

 China                    200403    407322    311894       |    268052         .      168184    204559     95271    131403    132731    113940    177353

 Malaysia                 586915     99675    181658       |    169911         .       38520     81135    101654     79140     84705     49530    102963

 Korea, South             176202     65866     94800       |    148415         .           .     42144     30640     65800     83299     62380     29980

 Thailand                 183916    182743    143949       |    120850         .       66320     58123     39637    113912     85732     35118     73468

 Israel                   149577     55450    115555       |    112270         .       79886     64088     57285     38058     82559     15399     51459

 Italy                    312732    260681     58131       |     72106         .       28404     35504     14681     51636     25166     45313     58251

 Germany                   49186    113610     34849       |     53433         .      155184     17633     18122     16794     47295      6138     18792

 Egypt                     39420         0     40500       |     40500         .           .         .     40500     13500     13500     13500         .

 Vietnam                   62355     79755     19721       |     31188         .        9758      9842      6910     22175     13274     11648     22582

 Slovenia                  14229     28003       380       |     28782         .       30694        25       380     13886       437     14459      5886

 Slovakia                  19961      9385     11157       |     20629         .           .       277     10676      9897     10969         .       930

 _ASEAN                  1351186    666772    714250       |    622375         .      237083    319679    338001    527196    378830    178829    314779

 _CBI                       4933         0       652       |         .         .        2157      2425         .       404         .         .      2327

 _CAFTA                     4933         0       652       |         .         .        2157      2425         .       404         .         .      2327

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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