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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 619:  POLYESTER FILAMENT FABRIC, LIGHT-WEIGHT
                                                      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                  16965924  16431957  15235538       |  13855986         .     6939909   6856783   6732501   6316376   7545442   5425193   5693972

 China                   4378576   2800646   5660240       |   6441099         .     2950318   2634872   2696932   2223767   3650438   2279016   2140346

 Korea, South            5031049   6515095   4902121       |   3671835         .     2240973   1884290   2195500   2425618   1871864   1582627   1989349

 Turkey                  1062656   1025113    851785       |    815556         .      168712    608231    171921    288768    414408    384851    261519

 Taiwan                  1979144   1625640   1032007       |    776458         .      376628    413983    672499    303908    420291    331056    398135

 Vietnam                 1139696    420402   1022001       |    449351         .       12800    515582    172290    159894    260279    189072    198495

 India                    722238    937264    527285       |    431005         .      187138    178923    207517    298635    229577    168243    137362

 Thailand                 517112    636714    329972       |    367998         .      146979    173579    189424    115687    180384    187595     78085

 Japan                    928301   1253306    294597       |    337893         .      219033    126670    156782    116672    242507     86553    279194

 Malaysia                 242642    131536    167943       |    216735         .       40801    173722     31012     93048    151172     65563     40708

 Indonesia                181986    490375    129986       |     74946         .      365981     84529     30710     99954     20827      6506     27366

 France                   116409    112648      4460       |     71706         .       52064       589      2645      2086     22420     48909     26104

 Mexico                   131454     70569     79433       |     41504         .       19172     29327     32441     19127     27963      8549     50610

 Pakistan                  91725     40487     27904       |     33528         .      120635         .    140063     72497         .     33528      6427

 Egypt                    122739     63726      3777       |     31632         .        6603     11803      3777     16446         .     15186      7859

 Colombia                  57707      7613     26343       |     26474         .        4909     11019     15477      2556      9237     16483     19125

 _ASEAN                  2081817   1679027   1649902       |   1109030         .      566561    947412    423436    468583    612662    448736    344654

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            58072      7613     26343       |     26522         .        4909     11019     15477      2573      9269     16483     19125

 _CBI                      14632       310     16318       |      3000         .           .       269      4000     12318         .      3000         .

 _CAFTA                    14632       310     16318       |      3000         .           .       269      4000     12318         .      3000         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         0       |         .         .          32         .         .         .         .         .         .