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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 643:  M/B MMF SUITS
                                                      Data in Nos.

(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                    453235    372419    410826       |    393434         .      171959    189862    228151    209814    188135    162850    208957

 China                    341444    259619    291594       |    270055         .      111769    137522    171815    142721    127508    118414    139824

 Dominican Republic        81165     99249     79436       |    100130         .       46112     34024     45095     53812     52127     30400     59732

 Hong Kong                     0         8      1413       |      7481         .           .         .         .      1413      1536      5945         .

 Philippines                3600      5454      1121       |      6966         .         453         .         .      1121      1466      5500      4110

 Indonesia                   197         9      4304       |      4267         .          95      4156       153         .      4267         .         .

 Italy                       905       559       471       |       974         .         102        88       117       427       114       859        29

 Egypt                         0         0      4361       |       872         .           .      4068       293         .       290       582         .

 Romania                       0         1       306       |       685         .          12         .       173       805        14         .         .

 India                      2202         0      1575       |       662         .        8175        76      1575         .         .       662         .

 Vietnam                   13254      6610     18340       |       440         .        1486      9096      5130      4027       178       259       356

 Pakistan                    546         0       280       |       417         .          45         .       298        12       405         .         .

 Mexico                      436       312        24       |       174         .           .       397        24         .        33       141        59

 Turkey                      149       423        30       |       144         .         442         .        39         .       132        12         .

 Finland                       .         .         .       |        99         .           .         .         .         .        50        49         .

 Haiti                         0         0      1599       |        27         .           .         .       966       633         .        27         .

 _CBI                      81165     99249     81082       |    100157         .       46270     34024     46236     54445     52127     30427     59807

 _CAFTA                    81165     99249     79483       |    100130         .       46270     34024     45270     53812     52127     30400     59807

 _ASEAN                    21202     12073     23765       |     11673         .        2034     13261      5283      5148      5911      5759      9236

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              328         0        12       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0      2743       |         .         .           .         .         .      2743         .         .         .