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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 628:  MMF TWILLS/SATEENS 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                   2371801   2297275   2112188       |   3564924         .     1501539   1440607   1406528   1282599   1726048   1713310   1552442

 China                   1612671   1725001   1325886       |   3172066         .     1323263   1267809   1216013   1080727   1641026   1459608   1394210

 Taiwan                   410631    417356    195339       |    140857         .       74936     75869     84106     66859     50842     63220     91766

 Thailand                  54393     59071      3955       |     73248         .         145     18811      3870      4459      8023     60851      1446

 Korea, South             276089     63466    240928       |     68595         .       91002     67708     48053    102630      2473     58486     33068

 Malaysia                      0         0     33624       |     36929         .           .         .     33624         .         .     36929         .

 Mexico                        0         0     31514       |     26660         .       10757         .     17278      4682     16612     10048     13632

 Nicaragua                     0         0         0       |     21017         .           .         .        13         .       399     20618         .

 Pakistan                      0       377       319       |     15287         .           .         .         .     15689         .         .         .

 Japan                      5421      4013      4123       |      6474         .         446      3276         .      4123      4232      2242       122

 Italy                      1324      2174       130       |      1268         .         933         .        60        38      1158        72      1096

 France                     3214       782      1505       |      1060         .           .         .      1505         .       283       777       822

 Vietnam                       0      9560         0       |       971         .           .      7122         .         .       971         .     12685

 Hong Kong                     0         0      1977       |       460         .           .         .      1977      2663         .       460         .

 Turkey                     3182         0        17       |        17         .           .         .         .         .        17         .      3169

 Morocco                       .         .         .       |        12         .           .         .         .         .        12         .         .

 _ASEAN                    54393     68631     37579       |    111148         .         145     25933     37494      4459      8994     97780     14131

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |     21017         .           .         .        13         .       399     20618         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |     21017         .           .         .        13         .       399     20618         .

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