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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 642:  MMF SKIRTS
                                                      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                    353947    259635    410862       |    440421         .      226258    219248    169131    205670    174160    217131    153089

 China                    170505    111527    233711       |    245898         .      120645    110216     95381    122552     94289    117845     82437

 Vietnam                   46832     47267     65847       |     53793         .       38763     40556     27031     24572     20916     28984     15752

 Indonesia                 44148     20771     29044       |     45785         .       13383     17193     15416     17682     17937     25679     17030

 India                     16995      6491     15592       |     23124         .        4833      7348      6386      8482     10345     11262      7666

 Guatemala                 16627     12266     11593       |     13848         .        5446      8677      5174      5490      6447      4651      7696

 Cambodia                   2282      8823      7799       |      8855         .        4833      3373      1824      5678      5042      3678       678

 Sri Lanka                  5022      3142      9040       |      8111         .       12315      8976      4737      3377      2273      5391      2712

 Philippines               10509      8459      3472       |      6626         .        7016      3055      1362      3010       932      4147       536

 Mexico                     5849      7833      3823       |      6508         .        1959      2489      1930      1700      1540      4903      2233

 Taiwan                    10565      6502      4172       |      4988         .        2967      8646      1275      2211      1829      2733      3104

 Lesotho                       0         0         0       |      2793         .         584         .         .      1143      1650         .      2697

 Thailand                   1971      4768      1484       |      2629         .        2402       989       812       119      1796       833      1269

 Bangladesh                 4105      3814      3761       |      2103         .        2608       867      1319      2089      1610       493      3342

 Dominican Republic          494       377      2497       |      1890         .        1010       686      1576      1508       978       687       228

 Turkey                      541       853       911       |      1862         .         589       454       604       454       218      1420       336

 _ASEAN                   106045     91874    108201       |    118283         .       67780     65332     46847     51537     46738     63329     36544

 _CBI                      20862     15385     16645       |     18173         .        7404     10665      7628      7858      8903      6117      8479

 _CAFTA                    20757     15385     16066       |     17931         .        7404     10146      7567      7810      8662      6117      8432

 _SUB-SAHARA                2075         0         2       |      2810         .         584         .         .      1162      1650         .      2708

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              422      2432      1123       |       807         .         296       967       249       201       525       245       294