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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 640:  M/B NOT-KNIT MMF 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                    569909    503082    443721       |    469865         .      209728    246589    182346    219625    213266    214033    229470

 China                    127114    119445    126392       |    129226         .       62106     77244     48408     54022     60532     61897     71724

 Honduras                 104397    112140     90181       |     85208         .       40833     52834     37872     40993     40698     31893     43021

 Mexico                    76278     57160     62411       |     68249         .       25622     28603     25955     35651     25971     31778     23926

 Vietnam                   45749     38999     31459       |     36224         .       21936     12353     14119     29853     16804     18758     22959

 Indonesia                 29721     42126     18872       |     30516         .       16811      4711     10418      9212     13165     16299     14204

 Bangladesh                57419     28726     24036       |     27167         .        2610     18149      9926     13508     12959      7438      8314

 Dominican Republic        32489     21616     14908       |     15844         .        9241     11776      6962      4410      7206      8638      8482

 El Salvador               10225     11057     11695       |     14648         .        5344      6889      3889      8250      5925      6239      5676

 Haiti                      8916      1158     12649       |     11758         .        5261      7722      3196      5950      7593      3068      6775

 Nicaragua                 27743     22105     16754       |     10218         .        4647     10064      6635      5497      5059      5159      3196

 Egypt                      9099      9066      8272       |      9751         .        4014      2858      1016      5574      2123      7550      2982

 Madagascar                 9579      4805      7295       |      7306         .        1584      1625      5145       532      4797      2509      2250

 Cambodia                   5873      2894      1662       |      5972         .         328      2521      1038       567      3942      2030      4011

 Korea, South               2081      6933      3532       |      4881         .        2519      2188      2404       102      1190      3691      2526

 India                      2356      4931      2974       |      3707         .         534       957      1443      1010      1357      2269      2159

 _CBI                     185161    169533    147401       |    138077         .       65787     89628     58581     66289     66590     55289     67498

 _CAFTA                   176209    168375    134727       |    126318         .       60526     81906     55360     60339     58996     52221     60723

 _ASEAN                    84044     88191     52213       |     74228         .       39455     19794     25698     39847     34505     37882     44503

 _SUB-SAHARA               12287      5764      7604       |      8555         .        1589      2288      5147       850      5261      3285      3700

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             2576      2181      1373       |       416         .         594       411       860       547       226       129       189