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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 638:  M/B MMF KNIT SHIRTS
                                                      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                   4370748   3348995   2719924       |   2903929         .     1175556   1373326   1222055   1158532   1113559   1526417   1263976

 Honduras                1107764    886371    588981       |    486346         .      224840    365720    273903    207248    164153    269823    268046

 El Salvador              871575    588399    288566       |    439032         .       90471    154193    116006    130790    189075    223545    145313

 Mexico                   376196    286693    261642       |    302710         .      119212    127162    127386    125570    137210    131781    118307

 Nicaragua                514717    375766    230099       |    266949         .       95007     65731    121415    115716     74805    168606    172020

 China                    178261    165810    357121       |    249228         .      178668    183710    161661    124112    102935    122950    130229

 Vietnam                  143783    165057    139615       |    191363         .       46814     63772     57607     63041     55887    112709     68362

 Indonesia                116447     70650     80466       |    124057         .       44632     30771     49702     28226     59431     54490     41324

 Haiti                    122588    128384    118785       |    122420         .       20792     28099     46507     80494     56087     52430     52211

 Jordan                   118129     45209     89697       |     82052         .       72622     66489     33025     38158     24108     49423     41078

 Egypt                     87860     72384     69764       |     72244         .       34550     38367     36623     24569     22753     45636     28086

 Philippines               58218     46763     31160       |     70345         .       18690      8592     20554     12938      7163     56333     31348

 Thailand                  83344    126167     67367       |     69209         .       37379     38628     25854     17004     27435     39968     36488

 Dominican Republic       121638     55972     54649       |     52347         .       17264     24201     21542     25035     14656     32562     18845

 Cambodia                  44734     44394     39594       |     48173         .       16376     26600      5547     30915     14835     31986      9963

 Guatemala                 33919     14333     35290       |     43993         .       29075     19775      9803     28166     15300     14872     23522

 _CBI                    2775830   2049968   1317085       |   1411894         .      478894    658476    589593    587630    514576    762109    680122

 _CAFTA                  2653126   1921560   1198300       |   1289474         .      458102    630369    543084    507128    458489    709679    627911

 _ASEAN                   480620    487924    411909       |    542956         .      190746    193378    179571    174787    185686    312344    207154

 _SUB-SAHARA              163466     97668     78219       |    111543         .       50066     29273     43994     49974     55141     47781     20712

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            29749     13064     17720       |     17612         .        6582      8377      8995      6522      8438      8614      7317