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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 604:  YARN > 85% SYNTHETIC 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                   2540017   2078612   1408006       |   1621155         .      583541    603393    629987    643911    788449    706012    918358

 Indonesia               1410519   1098409    812046       |   1095728         .      393469    419781    419631    426112    543561    460437    573882

 India                    211040    279700    186820       |    173041         .       99110     84459     89916     51776     77051     95990     94214

 China                    241965    227128    194775       |    145997         .       22630     52584     88331     89838     71641     61504     72305

 Turkey                   126895     70581       995       |     39111         .       41206         .       794       201     21307     17804     46342

 Malaysia                  15279         0         0       |     36879         .           .         .         .     18141         .     18738         .

 Mexico                    76448     14168     21479       |     34482         .        2089      8400     15935      3864        14     34468      4519

 Philippines               36783     12526     24308       |     23789         .           .     12144         .     12164     11965     11824     10409

 Romania                   43284    127180         0       |     21470         .       21619         .         .         .     21470         .     10840

 Korea, South              32085         0       106       |     21157         .           .       106         .        60     21157         .         .

 Taiwan                    19067        65      1263       |     20519         .          69     19967       680      1508     19577         .     55160

 Germany                   11550        53        15       |      3833         .        1093      2944         .         .        12      3821       808

 Japan                      4397       866       727       |      2573         .          98       614         .      3289         .         .      1815

 United Kingdom              107       632       777       |      1494         .         644       149       777         .       660       834      3033

 Thailand                  64779     55591     35853       |       500         .           .      2245     12101     23752         .       500      8042

 Netherlands                   0         0       456       |       456         .           .         .       456       456         .         .       456

 _ASEAN                  1547318   1186484    872207       |   1156896         .      393469    434170    431732    480169    555526    491499    614557

 _CBI                          0      2715      1366       |        11         .        1056         .      1366         .         .        11         .

 _CAFTA                        0      2715      1366       |        11         .        1056         .      1366         .         .        11         .

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

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