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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 618: WOVEN ARTIFICIAL FILAMENT FAB.
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)
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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 1412154 1384217 1153450 | 1559084 . 448823 269748 394505 593782 561091 716529 673381
Korea, South 797113 430305 700093 | 988957 . 294905 173477 283202 431229 376103 406792 399580
China 83945 107004 167441 | 398454 . 60373 31884 86588 82855 122275 227218 193101
Japan 77708 281054 38443 | 80021 . 6696 40011 2775 52295 25223 30884 39829
Italy 54365 72714 25022 | 67789 . 68648 3817 7015 17664 26239 39391 19918
India 36633 29185 6739 | 5490 . 2472 3269 2494 4492 2115 3362 9928
Taiwan 743 0 14359 | 5314 . 3506 13279 11186 28 5099 215 977
Indonesia 1898 0 0 | 3881 . . 12 . . . 3881 .
Turkey 39080 2545 363 | 3378 . 2492 512 210 . 103 3276 955
Poland 0 8103 136 | 3222 . . . 136 . 3222 . .
France 4089 12343 678 | 829 . 110 1362 235 571 179 355 137
Spain 23 1919 807 | 494 . . . 15 792 36 458 244
United Kingdom 647 1275 1689 | 454 . 145 . 160 62 74 318 .
Belgium / Luxembourg . . . | 257 . . 23 . 51 . 257 97
Thailand 0 0 195 | 202 . . . . 220 202 . .
Netherlands 216 214 211 | 132 . . . . 211 132 . 146
_ASEAN 1898 0 195 | 4083 . . 12 . 220 202 3881 .
_CBI 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .
_CAFTA 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .
_SUB-SAHARA 0 0 0 | . . . 402 . . . . .