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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 644:  W/G 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                   1044156    784178    628990       |   1101842         .      350330    322110    183748    432015    661434    388466    275459

 Bangladesh                  101         0    100746       |    476730         .           .        50         .    142344    365070    111660         .

 China                    488382    406982    331590       |    365684         .      209952    164342    105305    213063    181611    135660    165231

 Vietnam                  486424    275506    109012       |    198080         .      101190    121403     52692     31297     83505    111071     90912

 Guatemala                  5343         0     42572       |     48227         .       16509     21920     21749     12171     23418     24809      5236

 Indonesia                  2034     12924     15187       |     11731         .        6918      6612         .     13410      7020      4711      7168

 Egypt                         0         0         0       |       348         .           .         .         .         .         .       348         .

 Thailand                      0       773       134       |       281         .          18       369        80        35       280         .        48

 Hong Kong                     4      6753         0       |       204         .           .         .         .         .       204         .         .

 Turkey                        0         0      3012       |       161         .          92        16        26      3008       104        57         .

 Pakistan                      0         0       144       |       127         .          26         .       157        21       107         .         .

 Nepal                         .         .         .       |        57         .           .         .         .         .         .        57         .

 India                      6535       388       162       |        56         .         146      1904        17        60        55         .        54

 Italy                       221       196       142       |        40         .          98        19        29       113         .        33        38

 Mexico                       92        52        38       |        36         .          94        32         .        12         .        34        33

 Colombia                      0         0         0       |        32         .           .         .         .         .        32         .         .

 _ASEAN                   510378    304078    124333       |    210092         .      108126    128384     52772     44742     90805    115783     98293

 _CBI                       5343     53295     66762       |     48227         .       31165     27355     25414     27261     23418     24809      5236

 _CAFTA                     5343     53295     66762       |     48227         .       31165     27355     25414     27261     23418     24809      5236

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |        32         .           .         .         .         .        32         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0      1011       |         .         .           .         .         .      1011         .         .         .