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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 624:  WOVEN MMF FABRIC, 15% < WOOL <36%
                                                      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                    284081    135818     53211       |    220667         .       27595     37401      7463     47875     59584    156389     49019

 China                     38237     53550     14261       |    112923         .       20235     17352      1825     25490      1946    110112      7605

 India                      2271      3377      1038       |     48322         .        2146         .       892       146     30866     17456      1653

 Mexico                   152527     44727     29321       |     47818         .        3827     17891      4424     17571     20054     24145     21902

 Italy                      5753      5868      2306       |      7266         .         304      1217       203      2140      4736      2379       923

 France                      659      1110      1448       |      2028         .          35         .        67      1407       136      1892      5237

 Switzerland                1742      1055         0       |      1343         .         370       359         .       457      1127       216        37

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |       745         .          70         .         .         .       675        70         .

 Turkey                      147       408         0       |       112         .         439       168        27        89         .        53        26

 United Kingdom              542      1403       635       |        72         .          32       258        25       477         .        65       136

 Germany                    1106        78         0       |        25         .           .         .         .        98        23         .       345

 Japan                         0         0         0       |        13         .          21         .         .         .        13         .         .

 Canada                    24418     20955      3992       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Guatemala                     0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Dominican Republic            0         0         0       |         .         .          42         .         .         .         .         .         .

 British Virgin Isls.          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .          42         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |         .         .          42         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0       787         0       |         .         .           .       156         .         .         .         .         .

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