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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 627:  MMF SHEETING 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                    579019    445739    146952       |    655134         .      128662     49280     70163    200118    443227     69878    195627

 China                     45453     53847     30526       |    399991         .       30073     22086     26795     14126    372347     25766    110613

 Bahrain                  263111    223386     33498       |    127610         .       90554         .     33498    127610         .         .     84495

 Pakistan                 180407    119112     23010       |     84140         .           .         .      2679     32873     70837       761         .

 Turkey                    87659     46654     57012       |     39764         .           .     27078      4445     25489         .     39764         .

 Korea, South               1308         0         0       |      2820         .           .         .         .         .         .      2820         .

 France                      127         0        15       |       601         .           .         .         .        15        43       558         .

 Colombia                      .         .         .       |       183         .          92         .         .         .         .       183       130

 Italy                       181        45       145       |        14         .           .         .         .         .         .        14       264

 Thailand                      .         .         .       |        11         .           .         .         .         .         .        11        29

 Canada                        0      2587         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Mexico                      439         0      2670       |         .         .         513         .      2670         .         .         .         .

 Haiti                         0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Brazil                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Uruguay                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                .         .         .       |       183         .          92         .         .         .         .       183       130

 _ASEAN                        0         0         0       |        11         .           .         .         .         .         .        11        29

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