_________________________________________ | | | BI-WEEKLY | | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | March 12, 2009 | HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! | | | | By Category | |_________________________________________| 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 | . . . . . . . . .