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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                March 12, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |               By Category               |
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                                           Category 625:  MMF POPLIN/BROADCLTH STAP/FIL
                                                      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)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 Country                  1/2008    2/2008   12/2008       |   1/2009    2/2009       12/13     12/27      1/10      1/24      2/07      2/21      3/07
                                                                 (P)       (P)          (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)
 World                   2501252   2350791    935536       |   1714088   1187739      567421    220746   1069194    319955    665128    633206   1115810

 Pakistan                 444103    641899    117799       |    665094    458062           .        21    248888    208103    208103    209053    249009

 Thailand                 614358   1133456    184823       |    660003      7188      184823      1480    537277     14414    108312      1007    765812

 China                    996632    468414    503589       |    300231    663431      280210    211445    270751     20316    334980    369149      9178

 Malaysia                  58581         0     20762       |     66534     43764       20762         .         .     66534         .     43764     45816

 Korea, South              13923     14313     69164       |     12724      6327       61498      4684      7733      5560      6059      5489     45008

 Israel                        0       338      3047       |      3047         .           .         .         .      3047         .         .         .

 Japan                      2390       911      1787       |      2181      5041        1366       491      4340         .      3131      3969       122

 Taiwan                    50996     22860      5424       |      1880      2543        5425       463         .         .      4094       329         .

 Italy                      1533      9200      1304       |      1469       667        1234       154        30      1439        66       285       316

 India                       804         0         0       |       434         .           .         .         .       224       210         .         .

 United Kingdom                0         4      7365       |       310         .        7365         .         .       310         .         .         .

 France                    12052       828       867       |       164       527         200       423         .         .       170         .       521

 Switzerland                 242        17        17       |        17        89           .        17         .         .         .        61        28

 Canada                      250     42851     14587       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Mexico                        0        76         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                   674163   1133456    205585       |    726537     50952      205600      1480    537277     80948    108312     44771    811628

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .