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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 617:  MMF TWILL AND SATEEN 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                   1919597   2186630   1353933       |   2080274         .      666674    703001    721115    548681    980165   1072405   1194334

 China                    716476   1259634    735218       |   1116426         .      399499    606534    456555    478608    361188    728382    385677

 Pakistan                 127440    266670     68055       |    560850         .      212885         .     59131     18118    321396    239454    293007

 Bahrain                  515246    285153    210639       |    237757         .           .     81884    128755         .    237757         .    358670

 Indonesia                 43997         0         0       |     59688         .           .         .         .         .         .     59688         .

 Germany                    3767       111       982       |     42711         .           .      1078        19        17     19981     22730      4903

 Taiwan                    28388      7162     23030       |     12789         .       49348       487     21840         .     12789         .     20017

 Thailand                 150826       578     74154       |     10928         .          38         .     32847     41358     10079         .         .

 India                     15436      1679      9601       |      8523         .        2755      4604      1997      4920      8523         .      7414

 Turkey                     3323      6786     10413       |      7091         .           .      5433      5884      4529         .      7091     24723

 Italy                         4      4590        54       |      6886         .         128         .        21        33      6570       316       183

 Malaysia                   6371         0      7849       |      4396         .           .         .      7849         .         .      4396         .

 Japan                     35333     23530         0       |      4391         .         562         .         .         .        58      4333      1383

 Austria                      49         0         0       |      2025         .           .         .         .         .      1350       675         .

 El Salvador               40998      8162      5635       |      1977         .           .         .      5635         .         .      1977         .

 Mexico                     2399         0      1075       |      1715         .           .         .         .      1075         .      1715         .

 _ASEAN                   210226       578     82003       |     75012         .          38         .     40696     41358     10079     64084     15365

 _CBI                      40998      8162      5635       |      1983         .           .         .      5635         .         .      1983         .

 _CAFTA                    40998      8162      5635       |      1983         .           .         .      5635         .         .      1983         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0      2225       |         .         .           .      2225         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0       224       |         .         .           .       224         .         .         .         .         .