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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 625:  MMF POPLIN/BROADCLTH STAP/FIL
                                                      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                   1655055   1164218   2244773       |   1672106         .      569991   1219729    892758    719336   1488607    171614   1363434

 Thailand                 581262    512209   1082979       |    895720         .           .    878092    204887      6759    888961         .    887959

 Pakistan                 274761    208103    416206       |    328734         .      211791    208103    208103    208103    208228    120506    328609

 United Arab Emirates          0         0    486551       |    228289         .      220743         .    266198    220353    228289         .         .

 China                    748599    346288    192953       |    150496         .      127294    112194    182691     31495    112344     36730    133525

 Hong Kong                     0         0         0       |     21150         .           .         .         .         .     21150         .         .

 Korea, South              18250     13030     23313       |     17695         .        6038      9615     14384      2863      5381     10981     10735

 Malaysia                      0     54716         0       |     17026         .           .         .         .         .     17026         .         .

 Turkey                     1288      7599      2998       |      5387         .           .      5719      3942       144      4078      1165         .

 Italy                      5391      3290       801       |      2766         .         445         .       768      1931       478       371         .

 El Salvador                   0         0         0       |      2569         .           .         .         .         .      2569         .         .

 Japan                       616      2464         0       |       902         .        3185       144         .         .         .       902      2405

 Israel                        0         0       217       |       509         .         438       217         .       291         .       218       149

 India                         0        72     11626       |       355         .          34         .     11626         .         .       355         .

 Colombia                      0         0         0       |       288         .           .         .         .         .         .       288         .

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |        99         .           .         .       148         .        99         .         .

 _ASEAN                   581262    566925   1088607       |    912746         .           .    883720    204887      6759    905987         .    887959

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |      2569         .           .         .         .         .      2569         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |      2569         .           .         .         .         .      2569         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |       288         .           .         .         .         .         .       288         .