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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 607:  OTHER STAPLE FIBER 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                    957315    954857   1021232       |    623695         .      466546    353803    422324    517990    199171    352085    284306

 Indonesia                578499    455339    433770       |    158052         .      244082    197989    173734    278309     21007    118263    138097

 China                     22503     29882    152151       |    148879         .       41091     45385     83058     71101     67112     66383     53059

 Vietnam                   38245     18144       454       |     76204         .       18144         .       454         .         .     76204       226

 India                     20520     85693    127544       |     73412         .       49244     40504     41221     52899     41540     24792     20366

 Korea, South              23403     63735     39055       |     58100         .       67324       281     23315     32152     13630     28124     33068

 Egypt                     15102         0      7472       |     43496         .           .         .      7472         .     15894     27602         .

 Mexico                    56591     50202     21187       |     33290         .        4527     10363      1980     14059     21583      4843      2784

 Thailand                  84719     66528     99417       |     18019         .           .         .     40779     58718     18019         .         .

 Taiwan                     1657         0      2088       |     10398         .        1859       521      2088      7983        59      2356      1130

 Italy                      3960      9280      1483       |      2620         .        4336       564         .       250       301      2319       637

 Turkey                        0         0       375       |      1038         .           .         .         .       375         .      1038      1845

 Germany                     237        79        65       |       106         .           .        50        17        48        13        93         .

 Netherlands                   0         0         0       |        68         .           .         .         .         .         .        68       493

 France                       25         6        12       |        13         .          14         .        12         .        13         .        13

 Canada                    96049     86573     46136       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                   701917    560378    613497       |    252275         .      262226    237951    254861    337027     39026    194467    138323

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

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

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)               38         0         0       |         .         .           .        40         .       179         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0      1269         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .