_________________________________________ | | | BI-WEEKLY | | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | February 5, 2009 | HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! | | | | By Category | |_________________________________________| Category 438: WOOL KNIT SHIRTS/BLOUSES 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 45039 42714 131175 | 44827 27464 143928 85372 33572 24408 14777 17319 7816 China 30360 21116 118866 | 36622 21050 128698 78884 27293 20061 11700 15256 6053 Hong Kong 1131 657 2356 | 1932 190 2036 2075 260 1878 32 89 91 Italy 1645 2158 3531 | 1440 1405 3882 1859 1563 674 628 354 731 Mexico 532 848 2244 | 1076 3473 1226 424 1872 658 354 639 342 Portugal 224 8 388 | 816 . 60 15 373 . 558 256 . Cambodia 15 62 0 | 469 100 663 . . . 469 36 . Vietnam 2 308 532 | 445 13 3318 510 25 297 148 13 . India 7 54 152 | 307 17 . 155 10 . 305 . . Peru 112 121 468 | 305 21 136 392 107 23 80 207 10 Turkey 473 41 109 | 229 88 197 90 90 142 84 35 61 Korea, South 311 99 95 | 183 59 53 57 82 116 44 31 49 France 52 33 49 | 126 70 420 83 78 64 41 34 24 United Kingdom 109 40 43 | 118 30 15 21 30 32 74 19 20 Romania 170 451 52 | 88 88 281 38 20 37 50 . 51 Spain 43 2 100 | 87 . 96 54 101 36 33 19 . _ASEAN 8382 839 1920 | 1010 178 4458 601 1362 350 657 88 25 _ANDEAN (ATPA) 141 158 628 | 409 32 458 479 213 117 90 209 10 _CBI 0 15249 7 | . . 98 . . . . . . _CAFTA 0 15249 7 | . . 98 . . . . . . _SUB-SAHARA 1 0 26 | . . . 31 . . . . .