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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 603: YARN > 85% ARTIFICIAL STAPLE FIBER
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)
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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 1510839 1686289 922471 | 975529 1097751 643938 467581 388147 389627 348348 560547 545945
Indonesia 643481 602477 255806 | 330167 465341 210333 105732 185092 149301 60514 179401 221343
India 110924 61770 66627 | 140018 165103 62908 43264 21362 80050 40998 58464 82818
Turkey 15286 45966 47738 | 119742 48136 15961 . 31778 32197 43712 91752 217
Australia 116172 33556 35099 | 115462 35770 . 35099 . . 70116 45346 35770
Thailand 140210 328856 244893 | 76161 156431 171145 114401 75191 55307 38137 49002 106565
China 223509 304662 104736 | 58619 67853 66479 46508 37826 21503 37116 24191 32494
Spain 40302 72305 44939 | 38534 20969 . 31774 23246 13142 889 37706 1988
Taiwan 1266 21499 635 | 33180 41666 561 2242 286 17179 15986 22200 19263
Pakistan 34553 17509 18033 | 21687 11113 . 18033 . 3997 17690 . 11113
Austria 31368 56695 15259 | 15311 . 44947 15259 . 15311 . . .
Switzerland 5733 7132 0 | 7622 . . . . . 7622 . .
Korea, South 58887 36774 2845 | 6989 66121 33521 . 2845 78 6911 49896 16225
Sri Lanka 22077 9196 8820 | 6712 . 13929 2355 6465 1378 3516 1818 .
Mexico 0 0 9388 | 5093 16818 3802 9388 . . 5093 . 16818
Italy 1545 1164 420 | 179 834 575 425 . 179 . . 683
_ASEAN 783691 989031 540253 | 406328 621772 401255 259687 260283 204608 98651 228403 327908
_CBI 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .
_CAFTA 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .