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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             February 12, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                           Category 334:  OTHER M/B COATS, COTTON
                                                      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       11/15     11/29     12/13     12/27      1/10      1/24      2/07
                                                                 (P)       (P)          (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)
 World                    520994    268556    485785       |    361415         .      460988    319553    248734    180495    186653    155024    124418

 China                    310909    151519    236517       |    185066         .      258801    181663    116770     90935    109582     71600     65004

 Pakistan                  65214     25490     74419       |     47570         .       64306     34526     43792     19198     24914     21399     11993

 Bangladesh                19733      7267     36034       |     29939         .       22422     13910     21999     13414     15569      9061      9392

 India                     16001      4914     13829       |     19791         .       11487      9886      8784      2818      9095      7920      4243

 Indonesia                  7317      4070     15969       |     18553         .        5818     13661      5826     10333      4735     12016      5657

 Vietnam                   38969     12937     24979       |     18412         .       24741     14522     15450      7177      5875      7929      8072

 Mexico                    21636     26134     19787       |     12562         .       19110     16834     13567      8230      2905      8057      8396

 Cambodia                  11078      6045     16572       |      5546         .       12905     14056      4279      4972      1572      3787       361

 Honduras                   1034       481      5852       |      4459         .        1662      1840      2640      3096      1409      1062      4594

 Thailand                   3815      4339      5602       |      3823         .        3641      2884      1589      3181       868      3030       436

 Philippines                4392      2462      5394       |      3111         .        6166      1725      3965       751      1359      1483      1713

 Jordan                      225         0         0       |      2863         .         937         .         .         .       498      2423         .

 Malaysia                   2912      3847     10032       |      1690         .         566      3043      2062      5607       768      1001       296

 Macau                      1061      2007       478       |      1172         .         508       151       143        42       381      1029         .

 Turkey                     2386      1945      2993       |      1136         .        1129      1054      1988      1587      1407       431       583

 _ASEAN                    69678     34011     78552       |     51221         .       53837     49914     33171     32026     15178     29330     16536

 _CBI                       5637      4465      7383       |      4887         .        1830      2254      3695      4462      3239      1353      5346

 _CAFTA                     5411      4465      7242       |      4837         .        1830      2254      3577      3214      3195      1347      5346

 _SUB-SAHARA                1347      1913      1435       |       994         .       15340      1642       291      1132       165       720       331

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              673      1759       436       |       925         .           .       459       231       214       511       217       357