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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 621:  IMPRESSION FABRIC
                                                      Data in Kg..

(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                     14207     11736      2582       |      2994         .        9496      1232       764      1963      2197       597      6332

 China                      6727      8310       695       |      2110         .        4393       128       696       200      1541       369      4663

 France                        3        32      1748       |       405         .         175        55         .      1693       405         .         .

 Spain                       200         0         0       |       367         .           .         .         .         .       167       200         .

 Thailand                      0         0         0       |        65         .        4684         .         .         .        65         .         .

 Mexico                       36         0        61       |        16         .          20        18        66         .         .        12        72

 Canada                        0        28        17       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Ecuador                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Sweden                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 United Kingdom               85         0         0       |         .         .           .       750         .         .         .         .      1575

 Netherlands                   0         0         0       |         .         .          31         .         .        40         .         .         .

 Belgium                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Luxembourg                    0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Germany                       0        20        61       |         .         .          22        16         .        28         .         .        19

 Austria                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Hungary                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                        0         0         0       |        65         .        4684         .         .         .        65         .         .

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

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