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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 810:  WOVEN FAB, SILK BLD/N-COT VEG FIB
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                   8964320   6689581   2575538       |   2779219         .      665143    831464   1122850   2143070   1726997    953954   1502153

 China                   7927123   5496957   2095910       |   1729110         .      342566    667457    947332   1525969   1168790    544056    756612

 India                    105187     66198     51349       |    364212         .       38006     14903     14851    331379    324971     38393    378636

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |    161092         .       40018     35426     34310     47194     51116    103115     51591

 Bangladesh                    0         0      2271       |     75270         .           .         .      2271         .        20     75250         .

 United Kingdom            52821    102316     36761       |     74767         .       15935     13459     17165     16412     12371     58630    103127

 Italy                    108627    152643     33768       |     70200         .       19377     15352      8838     17943     35864     31756     39816

 Pakistan                      0     55355      9072       |     65171         .           .         .      9072         .     65171         .         .

 Korea, South             155769    192942     29488       |     63537         .       28467      9102     26772      8033     16653     40836      9995

 Ireland                      40     78770        59       |     55768         .         249         .         .     55739        44         .     60698

 Sri Lanka                 24650     25782     31050       |     30500         .       23300     17860      6200     25150     22000      8500     20700

 El Salvador                   0     32767     32210       |     14759         .           .         .     32210         .         .     14759         .

 Czech Republic            25047         0         0       |     12888         .        2671         .         .         .      5184      7704     26503

 Thailand                  10216      8949      8171       |     11650         .        4210      2782      5162      1968      4881      6637      3913

 France                    21131     15106      7129       |      9928         .       67589      1009      1983      4983      4648      4665      3598

 Germany                   20375      7478      5080       |      6163         .        4349      1170       838      5661       646      3752      5472

 _CBI                          0     32873     32461       |     15050         .           .       138     32323         .       291     14759         .

 _CAFTA                        0     32842     32461       |     15010         .           .       138     32323         .       251     14759         .

 _ASEAN                    26527     29388      8523       |     11910         .       23045      3346      5246      2041      5086      6692     19674

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             2417         4        54       |       751         .           .         .        60         .       751         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                 400        75         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .        36