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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 636:  MMF DRESSES
                                                      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                   1329148   1013696   1455363       |   1334626         .      689980    707880    633937    684629    601222    593422    610143

 China                    801237    609063    930936       |    856472         .      440785    450614    383048    458516    388039    377946    341215

 Vietnam                  145121    111052    132144       |    150041         .       52316     68817     57710     58442     76543     60912     81696

 Philippines               65612     41456     72399       |     65117         .       50860     42182     36572     25728     18423     42159     23355

 Indonesia                 46639     70046     52984       |     55709         .       26907     21949     25254     30683     22329     20660     53503

 India                     55057     33825     28629       |     38982         .       16812     12492     10496     17119     17693     18654     16872

 Bangladesh                35761     11901     70650       |     36855         .       23690     23828     35498     23378     22710      8988     12745

 Sri Lanka                 41475     41635     33130       |     24291         .       18449     15350     20105     10094      8774     13536     13355

 Mexico                    30731     14162     23960       |     23151         .       11098     20127      9266     11430     10993     10312      8907

 Taiwan                     6230      6501     13587       |     14037         .        4673     14844      2550      6204      6901      5516      1970

 Guatemala                  4596      5263      8842       |     10835         .        6771      3217      5568      4819      6443      3359      4341

 Cambodia                  38386     11177     16536       |     10730         .        3978      3608     12415      4735      3549      5904     13584

 Korea, South               3370      3558      6777       |      8353         .        3192      3042      1318      5031      1617      5448      3375

 El Salvador                9830     10734     15329       |      7068         .        5466      7530      5948      9588      2338      4241      2903

 Thailand                   2654      3630     10336       |      5614         .        4577      2963      7345      1538      1730      3368      4593

 Turkey                     4548      4082      5237       |      4487         .        3629      3447      3369      2298      1946      1904      2819

 _ASEAN                   301819    239219    292184       |    287686         .      140363    141471    144715    123948    122714    133338    183917

 _CBI                      15383     21114     26223       |     18208         .       12738     10983     13148     14889      8881      7774      7581

 _CAFTA                    15307     21114     26223       |     18205         .       12738     10982     13148     14889      8878      7774      7578

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             2920      3782      2994       |      2732         .        1076      1219      1522      1234      1384      1308       872

 _SUB-SAHARA                  93       934      1115       |        45         .         466        45        42      1034        44         .      1518