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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 641:  W/G NOT-KNIT MMF 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                   1283020   1025584   1136757       |    977261         .      569539    518694    510479    546772    435696    422421    453479

 China                    679345    591154    683764       |    539695         .      340487    295638    337749    299247    250261    235603    237405

 Indonesia                202399    111176    148968       |    122788         .       76345     81359     48557     79607     41899     60488     55591

 Vietnam                   89752     68531     66366       |    102534         .       35893     25473     30192     47904     53962     32231     53009

 India                     71436     57102     58786       |     51364         .       31190     22965     21522     39796     19312     19173     16417

 Mexico                    54330     44539     38783       |     33540         .       17686     14766     14554     21557     13905     15556     17009

 Bangladesh                34534     31857     32409       |     22916         .        5955     23122     12375      7974     12963      8840     23109

 Honduras                  18348     18336     20248       |     19129         .       11375     10077      7465      7761      9136      7949      9838

 Cambodia                  16576      8855     13437       |      9492         .        2271      7881      8598      4125      5681      3811      4083

 El Salvador                8185      8781      7637       |      8840         .        2743      3420      2159      5695      4088      3931      7677

 Haiti                      1832         0      6030       |      7202         .        1931      1995      3159      4581       209      4823      3426

 Egypt                      5062      5519      6758       |      7152         .         760      4276      3617      2353      2579      4415      1849

 Dominican Republic         9654      9439      6834       |      6077         .        2380      4562      2358      4255      3148      2558      2666

 Guatemala                 12698      6656      7793       |      6066         .        5856      2372      2387      5042      2061      3629      2833

 Nicaragua                 10058     10501      4398       |      5548         .        1268      1344      2115      1782      2482      3066      1332

 Sri Lanka                 13502      5297      3047       |      4775         .        9250       684      1380      2372       872      3784      2587

 _ASEAN                   324171    206796    239600       |    243067         .      119150    120983     91413    135353    105396    100265    116630

 _CBI                      60886     53962     52984       |     52862         .       25553     23770     19687     29116     21124     25956     29341

 _CAFTA                    58943     53713     46910       |     45660         .       23622     21775     16484     24535     20915     21133     24346

 _SUB-SAHARA                9500     10253      6583       |      7029         .        6851      4867      1351      3392      2167      2731      4113

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             1397      1045       770       |       442         .          96       502       312       277        89       297        77