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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)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 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         .         .         .         .         .