_________________________________________ | | | BI-WEEKLY | | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | February 5, 2009 | HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! | | | | By Category | |_________________________________________| Category 659: OTHER MMF APPAREL 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. ----------- 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 7712558 9333114 8218911 | 8919724 9438857 4317552 3934811 3610137 4056403 3524322 3645576 4713634 China 2993493 3822930 4078693 | 3767186 3974447 2462228 2012365 1595324 1768251 1425127 1561274 1909111 Indonesia 543636 770763 488075 | 825456 943845 159875 199385 209178 418751 274762 396724 436139 Mexico 735833 660799 509262 | 618557 542137 323146 288188 226564 309551 260604 124628 303403 Vietnam 466484 654871 423383 | 539020 700584 219647 194589 246459 269188 166652 280580 359357 Bangladesh 478504 696479 221532 | 523783 721340 77063 114135 135312 185225 259213 252081 350717 Cambodia 392668 439550 346762 | 447168 569602 122269 151109 200162 168668 206768 232674 288800 Taiwan 281334 358336 262508 | 324987 426227 89529 138854 129194 132523 140721 155733 224170 Pakistan 259996 247878 227898 | 289741 127831 98093 89119 127233 121210 101113 118083 70246 India 128691 117055 445831 | 286834 332543 173327 157147 249136 106889 120645 114711 201615 Dominican Republic 232906 202653 163153 | 276812 201835 107985 84027 62129 128457 107482 101412 90268 Thailand 146014 282504 118083 | 158447 154705 47651 40280 56752 43190 97106 67957 63590 Honduras 132589 85540 184403 | 154385 109781 48879 109716 58523 70170 73912 13635 70580 El Salvador 91258 93589 106216 | 106245 72607 57149 54046 50770 62684 32507 23872 49553 Sri Lanka 96482 177563 92060 | 89427 154228 38407 52426 45710 34646 36273 49738 85247 Philippines 72861 73014 64313 | 67403 66022 24439 23626 51841 30863 29136 37236 12044 _ASEAN 1642225 2242299 1443182 | 2048354 2445669 576220 611392 765226 935577 776541 1021363 1162526 _CBI 593586 498237 520568 | 645265 452962 252732 276868 208853 313351 264282 153067 246245 _CAFTA 590550 491633 518003 | 634079 442717 250205 275681 207456 311351 256461 148708 245867 _SUB-SAHARA 72239 91052 89515 | 48300 65723 45785 45560 32536 24359 23034 13025 53594 _ANDEAN (ATPA) 72757 69108 25113 | 31577 21540 11891 12154 14063 15982 13214 10056 5798