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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 613:  MMF SHEETING FABRIC
                                                      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                    636741    498286    366636       |    653899         .      518696    191205     92268    492538     74134    499851    411445

 China                    315506    145731    140482       |    236744         .      141396     79472     63076    112267     48177    108712    167477

 Pakistan                 210387    168995    177773       |    224736         .      375156     81033      8146    378449     11494    213242    195819

 United Arab Emirates      33897         0         0       |     84644         .           .         .         .         .         .     84644         .

 Israel                        0         0         0       |     55493         .           .         .         .         .         .     55493         .

 Spain                      1887       156      1366       |     18502         .        1928      8587       590         .     12739      5763      1190

 Japan                       224     32556     33007       |     16541         .           .     16524     16483         .         .     16541     16463

 Indonesia                     0    109161         0       |     13935         .           .         .         .         .         .     13935         .

 Italy                      1305      2598       104       |      1254         .          80       180        58        68      1219        30         .

 Colombia                      .         .         .       |       725         .           .         .         .         .         .       725       307

 Korea, South                  0         0         0       |       437         .           .         .         .         .         .       437       220

 France                      433      1094       392       |       392         .         115        13        59       346       188       204       442

 Switzerland                3481      1324       808       |       260         .           .       159       507       264       142        73       511

 Thailand                    566       286      5007       |       104         .           .      5007         .         .       101         .     28004

 United Kingdom              242         0        36       |        90         .          10        18         .        45        31        50        14

 India                         0         0       419       |        31         .           .         .         .       419        31         .         .

 _ASEAN                     1203    109447      5007       |     14039         .           .      5007         .         .       101     13938     28005

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                .         .         .       |       725         .           .         .         .         .         .       725       307

 _CBI                       2290         0      3332       |         .         .           .         .      3332         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                     2290         0      3332       |         .         .           .         .      3332         .         .         .         .

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