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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 224: PILE / TUFTED FABRICS
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 21573467 18562693 13378212 | 16740324 16101068 8493040 6867606 9063839 8173542 6555001 6777233 8119073
China 9809192 9363187 7690202 | 7294927 7213408 3835845 3400098 3997800 3678698 2450345 3158085 3552037
Malta and Gozo 6927530 4325074 1821379 | 3141871 2968089 1212778 598543 1212380 2544996 . 1176586 2388378
France 138246 150059 139820 | 2213222 3231112 1800143 733609 2757440 630681 1582368 1222395 954301
Turkey 146004 350646 1022547 | 1517239 95598 35480 996499 33356 26282 1482175 38192 58603
Taiwan 1949370 2210980 941559 | 800593 1223709 776001 294119 392316 385563 312023 534856 536802
Korea, South 612887 499583 509144 | 664789 398303 230098 210006 210721 367586 229877 213462 238364
Mexico 222461 272996 255149 | 255528 190850 138929 134971 98160 124304 109443 58639 73889
India 468825 381863 262097 | 219525 274249 112308 161121 105951 112766 94844 106105 154193
Pakistan 673595 381616 147566 | 163174 122851 12466 68632 78934 51198 99057 60682 31565
Sri Lanka . . . | 135101 94915 76963 27152 . 55193 79908 66475 28440
Vietnam 954 0 108974 | 99408 . 2518 9280 99694 99408 . . .
Italy 143445 128385 68609 | 79772 86746 45900 49544 31052 37774 35146 60813 26299
Belgium / Luxembourg . . . | 45310 39813 30717 43895 22106 17344 23837 11755 17466
Germany 33243 61902 19454 | 41850 24747 36061 9468 6355 22001 18297 3022 7075
Argentina 72683 52802 30278 | 11133 62258 1056 26827 2395 1056 10077 24668 14406
_ASEAN 4971 1843 108974 | 100364 5172 77236 9281 99694 100089 275 2110 3062
_CBI 7317 27295 16849 | 10949 9661 790 12922 . 4154 6795 . 9661
_CAFTA 7317 27295 16849 | 10949 9661 790 12922 . 4154 6795 . 9661
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 3073 7498 6921 | 2425 5053 3223 2909 4010 339 634 4178 646
_SUB-SAHARA 3040 22 0 | . . . . . . . . .