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