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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 619: POLYESTER FILAMENT FABRIC, LIGHT-WEIGHT
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.
----------- Official Data -------- | --------------- Preliminary Data (unofficial) --------------------------------------------|
Monthly Data Two Weeks-ending Data (2008 - 2009)
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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 18553226 21003197 16431957 | 15698083 15317850 7686984 6834195 8191524 8285775 5154799 6578130 6719238
Korea, South 5563046 4951791 6515095 | 5977512 4119857 3238705 2109836 3635807 3397949 1815228 1870413 1601264
China 4182604 7535958 2800646 | 4273263 5704550 1929160 1537171 1328912 2400392 1335107 1869420 2543317
Taiwan 1221173 875174 1625640 | 1093873 1096209 585784 903268 553055 591137 381289 443688 471000
India 637712 800278 937264 | 944137 721067 385101 333121 486718 301962 442594 513749 327091
Japan 1586131 1536606 1253306 | 919744 1108580 189316 429202 286492 493998 384691 478937 617192
Turkey 1869974 1511799 1025113 | 865112 777507 213621 809693 330548 313162 270182 514575 245959
Vietnam 583213 944546 420402 | 512347 573012 389708 78203 338424 185533 187819 354172 347412
Thailand 363634 731912 636714 | 477684 482506 274819 207641 537142 232770 131831 330228 128381
Indonesia 203920 442726 490375 | 133149 177930 60702 101503 364630 99606 31130 36514 125095
Malaysia 358691 136290 131536 | 101866 85333 149838 199998 82876 74849 151 96871 4799
France 117979 47843 112648 | 81946 50971 62794 18545 99127 25891 48991 7297 48652
Germany 42413 67852 25281 | 80121 21136 11300 11190 11630 20347 58194 2140 15641
Mexico 587350 89779 70569 | 69637 38248 61098 20354 24200 35834 20528 25985 16644
Italy 80800 48812 39830 | 35238 7375 20684 26500 17944 26446 5385 4291 5009
Pakistan 406243 536236 40487 | 34664 74232 24551 . 18186 34664 . . 74232
_ASEAN 1509458 2255474 1679027 | 1225140 1318930 875448 587345 1323098 592797 350986 817879 605742
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 22674 12473 7613 | 15546 4549 49095 6716 843 10575 1701 3958 .
_CBI 2086 46878 310 | 2536 . . . . 310 2226 . .
_CAFTA 2086 46878 310 | 2536 . . . . 310 2226 . .
_SUB-SAHARA 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .