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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 639:  W/G MMF KNIT SHIRTS / BLOUSES
                                                      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                   4761690   3060459   5060302       |   5176225         .     1885621   2314549   2361035   2344916   2159561   2481649   1888905

 China                   1725783    947097   2370029       |   2250383         .      874901   1077197   1109948   1088744    968640   1049714    841092

 Vietnam                  537715    343650    602017       |    774977         .      196146    276468    276725    258995    315974    398425    241113

 Indonesia                317472    167921    356957       |    429702         .      100967    128346    203818    166322    174936    203042    135796

 Mexico                   240999    223022    212683       |    226254         .       97690     93639     84418    130491     81799    114525    114018

 Guatemala                125828    118764    121698       |    200186         .       65577     61965     63498     48889     95525     80278     64301

 Cambodia                 312745    194034    189027       |    185315         .       85535     82135     84355     88544     67218     90100     72087

 Jordan                   250522    146378    252618       |    138080         .       75507    103075    107852    115106     28007     91234     49089

 Philippines              127288    124143     85284       |    119497         .       67596     56622     30829     66134     29267     84569     35816

 Taiwan                   118435    114374    104648       |     85133         .       38152     49281     40393     56285     29359     48167     29789

 Madagascar                44639     17503     32759       |     83167         .        4559      7572      9316     49827     44820     18466     13509

 Nicaragua                 40958     12027    110939       |     71437         .       28054     25107     63666     43694     45042     21629     33714

 Bangladesh                82496     45884     74888       |     62012         .       10420     40154     33226     17313     13120     39219     16577

 El Salvador               30620     39969     47693       |     60657         .       13137     16449     22143     23565     31854     25027     26407

 India                     54909     41858     57163       |     58702         .       26794     19455     35376     16471     32416     22991     32234

 Honduras                  47948     31651     35185       |     55455         .       20720     22487     10635     15534     24615     26249     15193

 _ASEAN                  1384523    915225   1300119       |   1558343         .      493340    570755    633892    597448    602316    806025    504666

 _CBI                     288512    228320    358715       |    475288         .      143486    150211    173331    153889    250092    184231    161666

 _CAFTA                   288461    228281    356033       |    443205         .      141537    148474    171982    152235    223819    178421    159445

 _SUB-SAHARA              124779    137998    111127       |    158490         .       52164     56653     63306     69455     81993     50987     62748

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            33238     26676     25436       |     27569         .        9128     17303     13446     17055     17473      8630     14912