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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 645:  M/B MMF SWEATERS
                                                      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                     41017     20623     80843       |     86173         .       18449     27785     31641     36908     72497     11438      4128

 Egypt                      1968         0     16701       |     33460         .        1284        31         .     16701     33460         .         .

 China                      5050      3791     37462       |     19101         .        8838     21553     13858     11660     12688      5386      1958

 Jordan                    10022      3054      8897       |     11035         .           .         .      8897         .     11035         .       293

 Bangladesh                13388      7544      8484       |     10653         .        5414      2974      5056      3063      7138      2365       482

 Mexico                     2233      2739      1729       |      6186         .         578       448       402       965      5340       841       117

 Thailand                    125         0      1226       |      1626         .           .         .      1224      1676      1322       303       135

 El Salvador                  21        30      2115       |       669         .         572       453       212      1668       273       386        22

 Indonesia                  4092      1022       353       |       652         .           .       311        21        42       417       223         .

 Israel                      901         0       487       |       591         .         263       338       149       101       180       411         .

 French West Indies            .         .         .       |       432         .           .         .         .         .         .       432        82

 India                       180         1         0       |       282         .           .         .         .         .         .       282       141

 Italy                       124        99        72       |       273         .         384        27        39        42       227        37         .

 Vietnam                     142       663       710       |       227         .           .       397       313       317       227         .         .

 Peru                          8        11       190       |       226         .           .       208         .         .         .       226         .

 Turkey                       14         6         0       |       206         .           .         .         .         .         .       203       121

 _ASEAN                     5394      2534      3003       |      2559         .         942      1353      1665      2082      1989       548       382

 _CBI                         21       252      2230       |       680         .         573       568       300      1682       274       388        23

 _CAFTA                       21       252      2230       |       680         .         573       568       300      1682       274       388        23

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)               10        83       303       |       228         .           .       265        49        20         .       226       248

 _SUB-SAHARA                 330         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .