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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 629:  OTHER MMF FABRICS OF 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                   3961844   3628015   3056935       |   2328016         .     1145100   1492660   1165566    954166   1213939    917940   1278417

 China                   1666744   1459808   1303275       |   1216113         .      812989    695293    698565    651200    543576    589275    577679

 India                     88466    154763    132365       |    334138         .       27107    350258     62780     71460    290431     35351     42444

 Turkey                   253555    385487    236620       |    164066         .       83105    174556     98694     37378     50320     95231     60315

 Korea, South             304932    180824    142536       |    142806         .       12288    124395     66279     71752     47712     43690    120786

 Pakistan                      0     33619     11022       |    106787         .           .       213        29     11022    105671      1116         .

 Taiwan                   175478    187631     39553       |     81504         .       37701     24922     19238     44655     24511     34693     54601

 Italy                    134605    114952    202985       |     78020         .       17564     44505    147220     22345     35245     38295     31289

 Spain                      5916    186690      2155       |     67119         .       80706       697      1139      1579     65140      1195    104384

 Israel                    12974     49049     16146       |     39878         .        5845      2428      5043     13145      4071     32491      5254

 Germany                   27115     25229     26589       |     28338         .         572      1005     12438     15072     12985     13492     12854

 Thailand                  17133     11903      5560       |     21707         .        4172      3761      3151       810     14931      6622     61659

 Indonesia                  2447        53      2091       |     11642         .         131      2878      2127       256      4376      7266        36

 United Kingdom              928      2500     15062       |      8493         .        1521      2677      9272      2014      4409      4045       390

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |      5904         .        2698      1336       485      3022      2183      3509      2545

 Switzerland               11498     15823      4639       |      5017         .        2075      3560      1273      2095      1484      3169      1842

 _ASEAN                    19614     12006      8139       |     33349         .        4303      7127      5278      1066     19307     13888     61695

 _CBI                       1374       325         5       |      1782         .           .         .         .         .         .      1782         .

 _CAFTA                     1374       325         5       |      1782         .           .         .         .         .         .      1782         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |      1296         .         643         .         .        54       102      1194       455

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0        29       |       203         .           .         .       456        36         .       194        11