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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 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         .         .         .         .         .