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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 632:  MMF HOSIERY
                                                      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                  10050512   6804107  10279937       |  11455560         .     4117685   4808546   4197576   5698215   4939233   4717725   4680273

 China                   4961232   3545504   7934582       |   9187624         .     3023103   3762632   3326763   4458254   3773525   3835491   3594066

 Korea, South            1273611    809298    484387       |    651033         .      146041    205055    166492    256533    319087    287111    319227

 Taiwan                  1168745    474492    375632       |    393409         .      283560    205140    144526    168444    155077    184818    177316

 El Salvador              295891    169424    294688       |    328417         .       68043    123137    108392    173208    169273    122821    135045

 Mexico                   394105    285279    256223       |    221418         .      125749    116243    108004    112403    119276     89063     72225

 Ecuador                  227300    308792    109695       |    168233         .       87780     32550         .     77145    114785     53448     65645

 India                    125642    138340     89077       |     78423         .       31160     20816     62845     50353     33850     23909     21387

 Indonesia                254791    123446    170949       |     71819         .      122820      6400     68645    177184     42209     15832     13418

 Pakistan                 137691     45935     90264       |     66583         .       48154     93875     13476     50398     35304     26196     29583

 Colombia                 187862     84609    137847       |     59495         .       19395     94604     56082     23887     57995       701     25499

 Cambodia                  67595     94650     31724       |     39467         .       15035     37075     26724         .     27912     11555     15120

 Honduras                  24802     23216     34183       |     30749         .       11349     15795     12364     15643     10751     14618     25461

 Malaysia                 532292    350352     24004       |     25188         .        8008     20004     30652         .     25188         .         .

 Thailand                  18529      7452     11885       |     21513         .        4986      1086      8393      6344      7217      9550      2835

 Costa Rica                45974     27500     40375       |     15730         .       45735      7433     26240     12981     15720        10     44895

 _CBI                     367665    223551    372627       |    374896         .      125127    146819    147309    204495    195744    137449    205490

 _CAFTA                   367665    223551    372627       |    374896         .      125127    146815    147309    204495    195744    137449    205490

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)           416590    394927    248183       |    227930         .      107194    127198     56674    101295    172877     54223     91203

 _ASEAN                   935589    659141    260814       |    173042         .      164112     68805    147370    198089    106910     42317     78663

 _SUB-SAHARA               13641     17090     20528       |     10343         .        5178      7613      2077     11926      9095      1248     11480