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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 800:  SILK BLENDS OR NON-CTN VEG FIB YRN
                                                      Data in Kg..

(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                     45973     57033     17321       |     11906         .       19997      7696      7878     11769      3365      8495     14382

 Romania                    2260        21         0       |      4427         .         453       700       101         .      1064      3363         .

 Hungary                    4750      6011         0       |      2591         .           .      3679         .         .        38      2552      4941

 China                      4644     26059      6347       |      1018         .       18006      1280      2131      1600       865       152      6864

 Peru                          0         0         0       |       748         .           .        55         .         .       304       444         .

 France                     7328      1677      5221       |       669         .           .         .      2155      8994       114       555         .

 United Kingdom              231       434        21       |       573         .          54         .         .        23       568         .        40

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |       502         .          92       151       123       148       109       388       895

 Italy                       214       279       146       |       388         .          58         .         .        90        22       366       290

 Lithuania                     0         0         0       |       359         .           .         .         .         .         .       359         .

 Taiwan                      686      1951      1126       |       229         .           .       458       181       684       173        56         .

 Sweden                       94         0         0       |       165         .          91         .         .        19        81        65        32

 Nepal                         0         0         0       |       119         .           .        38         .         .         .       119       470

 Spain                       230         0         1       |        39         .         155         .         .         .         .        39        11

 Switzerland                  77       169        67       |        23         .           .         .        54        32         .         .         .

 Thailand                      0         0         0       |        23         .           .         .        19         .         .        23         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |       748         .           .        55         .         .       304       444         .

 _ASEAN                        0     15840       193       |        38         .         401       201        19        19        12        23         .

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