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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 630:  MMF HANDKERCHIEFS
                                                      Data in Doz.

(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                     86046    123417     83175       |    254436         .       48576     42052     33166     46744     37748    194958     63391

 China                     72731    112404     81565       |    253992         .       47714     40986     32702     46254     37720    194841     63026

 Honduras                    367       109       196       |       404         .         165        92         .       433         .       108       352

 Germany                       0         0         0       |        17         .           .         .         .        13         .         .        10

 Indonesia                     0         0         0       |        13         .           .         .         .         .        13         .         .

 Canada                        0        30        25       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Mexico                     1800        54       208       |         .         .           .        28       208         .         .         .         .

 Guatemala                     0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 El Salvador                 204         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Dominican Republic            0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Trinidad and Tobago           0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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

 Peru                          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Chile                         0         0         0       |         .         .           .        10         .         .         .         .         .

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

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

 _CBI                        571       109       196       |       404         .         165        92         .       433         .       108       352

 _CAFTA                      571       109       196       |       404         .         165        92         .       433         .       108       352

 _ASEAN                        0        49         0       |        13         .         103         .         .         .        13         .         .

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