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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 615:  MMF PRINTCLOTH 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                    795070    296481    196341       |    177837         .      114901     37188    150413    150357    156401       835    319028

 Mexico                    68421     60695         0       |     72684         .           .         .         .         .     72684         .         .

 Thailand                 140378       424    123771       |     67059         .           .         .    123771    123771     67059         .    134926

 Taiwan                    55536     36808         0       |     20373         .       19678         .         .     20373         .         .         .

 China                    315017     14060     68707       |     12237         .          14     36345     26402      5985     11568       669     77883

 El Salvador                   .         .         .       |      5090         .           .         .         .         .      5090         .         .

 Greece                        .         .         .       |       180         .           .         .         .       180         .         .         .

 Italy                        23       396        48       |       124         .           .         .         .        48         .        76        26

 Germany                       0         0         0       |        90         .          64         .         .         .         .        90       117

 Canada                        0         0      3139       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Brazil                        0         0       100       |         .         .           .         .       100         .         .         .         .

 Finland                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Denmark                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 United Kingdom                0         0         0       |         .         .          23        34         .         .         .         .         .

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

 Belgium                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                   140378       424    123771       |     67059         .           .         .    123771    123771     67059         .    134926

 _CBI                          .         .         .       |      5090         .           .         .         .         .      5090         .         .

 _CAFTA                        .         .         .       |      5090         .           .         .         .         .      5090         .         .