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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 630:  MMF HANDKERCHIEFS
                                                      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                  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                    129480    390947    106493       |     98633     47175       59066     23413     62219     38015     23589     36180      7450

 China                     81330    386038    105380       |     86350     32881       57971     22888     51927     37651     19060     23627      5103

 India                         0         0       160       |      8193         .         412       160      9285         .         .         .         .

 Dominican Republic            0         0         0       |      2364     13803           .         .         .         .      3745     12234       201

 Korea, South               2978      1870       772       |       799         .         563       215         .       302       497         .      1943

 Bangladesh                    0       698         0       |       660         .           .         .       660         .         .         .         .

 Indonesia                     0         0         0       |       167         .           .         .         .         .       167         .         .

 Honduras                    282       137       181       |        35       418          90       106         .        25        85       302       145

 Germany                       0         0         0       |        26        32          24         .         .         .        33        15        19

 United Kingdom                0         0         0       |        18         .           .         .         .        18         .         .         .

 Turkey                        0         0         0       |        11         .           .         .         .        11         .         .         .

 Canada                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Mexico                        0         0         0       |         .        38           .         .         .         .         .         .        38

 Guatemala                     0      1366         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 El Salvador                   0         0         0       |         .         .           .        35         .         .         .         .         .

 Colombia                      0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CBI                        282      1503       181       |      2399     14221          90       141         .        25      3830     12536       346

 _CAFTA                      282      1503       181       |      2399     14221          90       141         .        25      3830     12536       346

 _ASEAN                      400        42         0       |       168         .           .         .       346         .       168         .         .

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

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .