_________________________________________ | | | BI-WEEKLY | | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | February 12, 2009 | HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! | | | | By Category | |_________________________________________| Category 642: MMF SKIRTS 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 528208 467052 342390 | 432301 . 139601 108411 146972 164879 165468 213476 218662 China 235831 194864 126188 | 184325 . 64539 39701 53921 60379 78837 84096 87932 Vietnam 48240 47031 42331 | 62757 . 24352 21026 20745 17129 23775 29977 31194 Indonesia 81810 64454 39029 | 55682 . 5982 8258 20217 22502 21386 32200 25244 Philippines 11518 12967 30274 | 27716 . 6333 2539 10370 19213 4090 19617 8279 India 22403 21080 10744 | 12786 . 3944 3790 3193 4211 6046 7317 5497 Mexico 23090 13080 9547 | 12166 . 3692 3729 5205 3417 3560 7155 9224 Guatemala 11219 8114 13658 | 11882 . 4939 7572 6650 6799 1076 7605 12111 Taiwan 11572 15699 7768 | 11077 . 3838 2909 3312 4281 7710 3166 4415 Egypt 112 7607 250 | 9830 . 26 . . 249 812 5135 7305 Jordan 23247 12430 1664 | 7805 . 1415 643 1661 217 1037 3228 3629 Cambodia 8944 15697 12040 | 7336 . 7201 4348 2764 5707 4994 1594 6096 Sri Lanka 9454 8422 10573 | 6693 . 640 2959 3047 7135 3429 2631 2733 Thailand 5127 4350 3846 | 4906 . 2742 1853 1409 1441 1266 3645 2346 United Arab Emirates 337 82 318 | 2910 . 250 17 320 56 36 96 3072 Dominican Republic 470 1623 1898 | 2370 . 142 338 589 1203 1132 791 571 _ASEAN 166802 148986 129588 | 160307 . 47217 39097 55993 67316 56372 87905 76155 _CBI 15647 15316 23030 | 16384 . 6455 8964 9959 12198 3147 9272 14145 _CAFTA 15381 15159 22976 | 16345 . 6455 8964 9911 12182 3147 9233 14064 _ANDEAN (ATPA) 1230 2454 2444 | 1024 . 2037 376 1655 388 468 716 406 _SUB-SAHARA 3121 267 0 | 56 . . . . . 53 . .