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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 631:  MMF GLOVES AND MITTENS
                                                      Data in Dpr.

(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                   5319826   2927463   4775256       |   3862310         .     1914003   1968607   2101316   1777076   1755006   1864163   1384132

 China                   4024464   2128929   3915469       |   3142348         .     1353614   1577504   1728321   1388264   1396871   1544151   1021257

 Mexico                   217973    198577    144897       |    156465         .      132077     80683     57432     78518     63153     89229     79251

 Taiwan                   291123     59629    195465       |    115243         .      144855     42410    101603    110484     53788     42146     42151

 Korea, South             190743    172960     98051       |    102421         .       68348     12388     76244     18623     51856     49124     37737

 Vietnam                   85710     29889     75993       |     59684         .       40167     47493     31905     28395     18657     41027     26084

 Philippines               61624     37270     48853       |     48935         .       25109     31229     18006     28396     23905     16713     18160

 Sri Lanka                 70035    101561     30145       |     44249         .       18816     16206     14789     11546     25997     17441     22100

 Hong Kong                 27803     33621     86838       |     42389         .       25914     33936     21301     34640     20409     21560     28123

 Bangladesh                50225     39639      8300       |     40704         .           .      8300         .         .     40700         .        73

 Indonesia                 66171     26826     48230       |     40352         .       10537     27505     10612     32811     22240     16435     14488

 Pakistan                 127480     47906     66477       |     37803         .       28830     66604     21477     25936     17276     19051     31533

 Malaysia                  90638     34556     40477       |     17935         .        8016     21858      7332     12217     16197      1738     42976

 Honduras                   9025      9199      5655       |      9078         .        2882      1961      3842      3462      2236      4998      4912

 India                       154         0       376       |      2379         .           .         .         .      2714         .        41         .

 Hungary                       0         0      1860       |       762         .           .         .      1860         .       762         .         .

 _ASEAN                   307244    128541    217359       |    167095         .      137181    128085     71255    102225     81000     76101    101710

 _CBI                       9025      9199      5655       |      9113         .        2966      1969      3842      3479      2271      4998      4912

 _CAFTA                     9025      9199      5655       |      9113         .        2966      1969      3842      3479      2271      4998      4912

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)               31      1312         6       |       190         .         108       112        61       204       114        73      2055

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .     12938