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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 626:  MMF PRINTCLOTH 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                   1800462    471915    547339       |   1212107         .      684926    155720    352040     37408    526092    686015    276181

 United Arab Emirates     291695         0    305551       |    540660         .      273701         .    305551         .    269617    271043         .

 Pakistan                      0         0     50097       |    442593         .      151538         .         .     14707    255676    186917         .

 Bahrain                  858745    275998         0       |    225309         .      227842         .         .         .         .    225309    244668

 China                    527977     33117      2237       |      3522         .       17251      5599      5608         .       786      2736     30082

 France                     3630      3140         0       |        13         .           .         .         .         .        13         .         .

 Switzerland                 295        30         0       |        10         .           .         .         .         .         .        10         .

 Canada                        0         0       585       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Mexico                       48         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Colombia                      0         0         0       |         .         .           .       133         .         .         .         .         .

 United Kingdom                0       204         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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

 Germany                      69         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .       965

 Austria                       0         0       220       |         .         .           .         .         .       220         .         .         .

 Spain                       130         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .        44

 Italy                       269        20         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .       422

 _ASEAN                    76320    115093    170249       |         .         .       11567    147768     22481     22481         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .           .       133         .         .         .         .         .