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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 603:  YARN > 85% ARTIFICIAL STAPLE FIBER
                                                      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                   1395620    922471   1203042       |    998070         .      745883    314418    548695    655276    523994    405770    434975

 Indonesia                475073    255806    453352       |    454801         .      374555    117035    160503    256263    249096    205705    203002

 China                    116771    104736     85964       |    120990         .       27469     32241     30120     47531     44823     60346     33669

 India                    120384     66627     47758       |    119535         .       34657     44960     10285     59258     81017     16874     15170

 Thailand                 299526    244893    199231       |     75924         .       70454     25299    118419    116921     37073     20831     50683

 Australia                 17426     35099    128027       |     71262         .       17951     35282     55762     53902     52757     18505     36947

 Spain                     32773     44939       949       |     37768         .       26142         .       136     13634       186     24761     13802

 Korea, South              33521      2845     70373       |     30436         .       39959     19887     38124     32249     25832      4604         .

 Pakistan                      0     18033         0       |     24816         .           .         .         .     19845      4961     19855     29583

 Singapore                     .         .         .       |     22761         .           .         .         .         .         .     22761         .

 Mexico                     8037      9388         0       |     18963         .         119         .         .         .      9747      9216      5654

 Turkey                    48092     47738     48311       |     16021         .       16010     16130     16102     16079     16021         .     16289

 Switzerland                4690         0         0       |      2422         .           .         .         .         .      2422         .         .

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |      1776         .           .         .      2328         .         .      1776      6338

 Hong Kong                     0         0         0       |       384         .           .         .         .         .         .       384         .

 Italy                      1855       420      1843       |       152         .           .         .         .       106         .       152      2264

 _ASEAN                   833930    540253    730083       |    553486         .      540625    142334    336619    392960    286169    249297    253685

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

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

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