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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 611:  WOVEN FABRIC >85% ARTIF STPLE
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                    474072    364335    643563       |    386218         .      129899    203701    268140     87867    241181    142522    417642

 China                    196761     50767    240648       |    174750         .       29077     99920     88753     50136    111793     61787    255132

 Korea, South              82191     59821    150630       |    153180         .       55167     35798    122075     17660     89446     63734    119316

 Japan                     25082    117903     25777       |     24614         .       14740     18804       922       170     21618      2838     20990

 Italy                      8527     27218      7665       |     14166         .        2168      1810      2577      3962      4012      9412      3957

 Spain                        25     19431      1459       |      5403         .        1980        88      1371       286      3066      2337      1549

 Turkey                      989       352     45389       |      4916         .         258      5385     45389         .      4672       244       297

 Indonesia                 22732      8573     46782       |      3669         .       16320     36757      2851     12422      3669         .     10506

 France                     2981      2464       582       |      1621         .         934       191       450      1915       811       730      1349

 India                      2866     25306      1143       |      1317         .         317      1696       926       213      1311         .      1274

 United Kingdom             1146       582       688       |       610         .         302       137       163        48       115       458       668

 Germany                      32       441       638       |       514         .           .      2442       642       308       149        64      1687

 Pakistan                      0         0         0       |       431         .           .         .         .         .         .       431         .

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |       299         .          57       273       660       569       226        54       240

 Thailand                  85157      1920        50       |       194         .        1109        72        32        30        68       118        70

 Taiwan                     9323     23514      1335       |       188         .        7471       328      1218        39       188         .       203

 _ASEAN                   107899     10493     46832       |      3863         .       17429     36829      2883     12452      3737       118     10576

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         0       |       159         .           .         .         .         .         .       159         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |       108         .           .         .         .         .        37        71        77

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

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