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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                              February 5, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                           Category 331:  COTTON GLOVES AND MITTENS
                                                      Data in Dpr.

(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.

                        ----------- Official Data -------- |  --------------- Preliminary Data (unofficial) --------------------------------------------| 
                                                    Monthly Data                          Two Weeks-ending Data  (2008 - 2009)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 Country                 12/2007    1/2008   11/2008       |  12/2008    1/2009       11/01     11/15     11/29     12/13     12/27      1/10      1/24
                                                                 (P)       (P)          (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)
 World                   4362158   3836061   2891721       |   3589592   3451849     2235079   1911783   1495679   1564717   1504825   1567093   1538457

 China                   2794908   2466691   1958389       |   2357539   2453227     1014129   1463997    965593   1088913    976571   1111418   1017861

 Pakistan                 413981    325806    209454       |    296149    200748      362981    146176    148168    160898     92582     92453    122278

 Philippines              199265    188387    147371       |    212742     46923       65179     69749     77687     85498     38905     99364     19144

 Indonesia                376111    205764    156820       |    209222    268000      133253       543    162570         .    169540     81520    164480

 Mexico                   161840    125613    180728       |    141248    101807      130893     64425     75690     62474     78774      2254     33743

 Sri Lanka                 24293    115603     18571       |    105927     49894        6896     10064      8237     14330     82114     27581     25697

 Korea, South              96427    138825     80207       |    103483    119868      418914     67409     27856     65247     38236     16750     90993

 Hong Kong                  2186     26468      8494       |     34871       605       17125      8799      2164      5102       259     29510         .

 Honduras                  14814     11856     17280       |     33128      9368        5011      7440      9840     13365     15417      4348      6212

 Bangladesh                58000     41000     16095       |     26600     94050       16095         .         .     26600         .     79550     14500

 Thailand                 128500     52778     24200       |     24206     28003       48864     24202         .     24205         .         .         .

 Taiwan                    11052     26099      2500       |     13704     15972        4464         .      4277      9200      4504      7693         .

 Malaysia                  14736     20160     11124       |     13086      5322        8733         .      2391      5604      2094      5874         .

 Guatemala                  5683     13380     16410       |      6407      6370         400     13740      2670      2807      3600         .      5170

 India                     54825     13500      9550       |      4712     13111         722      9503        51         .       390      4325         .

 _ASEAN                   718612    529114    339515       |    459256    348249      256029     94494    242691    115309    210540    186758    183627

 _CBI                      24558     25236     65086       |     43338     42427        5411     46063     19023     16172     19017      8151     38071

 _CAFTA                    20497     25236     33690       |     39535     15738        5411     21180     12510     16172     19017      4348     11382

 _SUB-SAHARA                 425       300       300       |       750       178         100       100       100        75       250       478       125

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)               12         0         0       |        25        10          14        14         .         .         .        19         .