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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 620:  OTHER SYNTHETIC FILAMENT 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                  59633815  62417274  45943584       |  44145977         .    16828815  21164624  16747993  21959366  19733955  20063036  19558260

 India                  17045939  15826105  16677432       |  15605896         .     4467259   8540073   5831215   7785579   8274796   5269266   6860305

 China                   4615886   3814915   5853425       |   6536533         .     2426176   2499219   3456365   2710920   2354685   3362808   3117809

 Taiwan                  3632791   3289168   2062192       |   3633147         .     1173089   1377447    554285   1073190   1870094   1601657   1386163

 Saudi Arabia            3027170   5894507   2378221       |   3435849         .     1539618   1445753    953988   1161216   1187315   2248534    586839

 United Arab Emirates    5624959   7446849   3989157       |   2702481         .     1963940   1961003   2080792   2385521    989377   1713104   1491468

 Turkey                  2063264   3629898   3262462       |   2499475         .     1123129   1377549    596077   2340442    826074   1056250   1864755

 Korea, South            2258426   1904376   1006558       |   1555947         .      459449    681816    329374    756319    759151    721562    419346

 Mexico                  1585250   1120424   1233580       |   1455478         .      856879    504661    636813    500910    539862    912813    949636

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |   1359629         .      534418    251897    336077    334572    774614    507468    434631

 Thailand                2297481   2519689   1335754       |   1302623         .      305520    495643    326771   1205102     12940   1084963     33088

 United Kingdom          1183932   1284545    672938       |   1049269         .      574455    392031    188827    472624    535505    513765    427843

 Vietnam                 1118570   2022103    489312       |    714487         .      326182    516874    369300    125604    119824    594663      2161

 Japan                    581860    535963    337404       |    482037         .      151311     98284    221047    226078     58676    264454    131442

 Greece                  3272340   5180170     98330       |    352569         .           .         .         .     98330    352569         .    973691

 Hong Kong                     0      9755      1015       |    265786         .        3334         .         .      1947    264853         .       122

 _ASEAN                  4802478   5002856   2214062       |   2305124         .      801067   1236550    878392   1515932    346650   1753741    576598

 _CBI                     475538    436219    182145       |    243329         .       85955    111773    146287    135674     95960     46967         .

 _CAFTA                   475538    436219    182145       |    243329         .       85955    111773    146287    135674     95960     46967         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)          2023317   1172149    527588       |       937         .      363842    198634    124568    309833       300       637       679

 _SUB-SAHARA              406808         0      1513       |         .         .       91668       488      1513        45         .         .      5317