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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                              February 5, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |               By Category               |
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                                           Category 350:  COTTON DRESSING GOWNS, ROBES ETC.
                                                      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.

                        ----------- 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                    639142    705581    580294       |    689320    681379      337588    254581    264074    306032    275110    321978    293968

 China                    284210    415665    289382       |    373372    299764      134931    147855    153177    153565    159223    160331    126680

 Vietnam                   85175     71008     80272       |    135390     65073       61891     25832     30159     80883     38795     37134     28089

 India                     24163     33871     51666       |     44308    100883       39207     14397     22911     23046     13125     34927     45385

 Cambodia                  24825     11772     24334       |     26945     49383        8850     13133      5290     16584      3345     12911     15994

 Pakistan                   8699     13186     15376       |     16354     13638        8580      5881      9097      8369      6019      5495      3999

 Indonesia                 60355     17952     16673       |     15615     53035       12938      4562      7031      1292     11513     20864     28894

 Malaysia                  18809     16206     28552       |     15463     13932       24446     12474       973      4665      8998     12279      2772

 Bangladesh                 3302     10027      6053       |     12579     39758       10618       877      2336       169      6041     18996     25534

 Thailand                   1886     13502      2975       |      8457      4981        4394      1501        62       870      7586      4979         .

 Sri Lanka                  7828      4770      7728       |      7924      7173        3294      2937      8424       662      5295      5594      3486

 Turkey                    15218     13805     17205       |      6670      7942        9588     11612      3446      4072      2162       886      1890

 Egypt                         0      1061       546       |      5719      2300         136         .       551       519      4863       832       128

 Philippines               19010      2139      9229       |      4660      5225         519      5324      3871      3867       674      2599      1663

 French West Indies            0         0         0       |      4512         .        4674         .      4794         .      4512         .         .

 El Salvador                4718      3491      4265       |      3977      4645        1033      1459      2675      2543      1040      1437      1591

 _ASEAN                   210060    132579    162397       |    206530    191629      113984     62826     47748    108161     70911     90766     77415

 _CBI                      15116     10221     15378       |      5772     12923        6474      6156      8804      3934      1394      2375      7449

 _CAFTA                    15013     10221     15358       |      5772     12923        6471      6136      8804      3934      1394      2375      7449

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              685       920       641       |       611        32         350       528       129       501       110        16        15

 _SUB-SAHARA                   3         0         0       |         .         .         184         .         .         .         .         .         .