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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                March 12, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                           Category 326:  COTTON SATEEN FABRIC
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                   4190537   2568288   4101696       |   2723304   2957799     2262217   1411756   1546351   1034621   1532175   1432925    860561

 China                   1447233    452200    875846       |   1154448   1056348      476689    158760    496270    697263    709817    446121     73094

 Pakistan                1248852    913205   2042579       |    595172   1355653     1196584    729059    372122    128743    640212    603290    307417

 United Arab Emirates     460102    249835    318776       |    558626    234590      169881    148895    473853         .     84773    140298    205080

 Korea, South              73455     53686     18362       |    118479     43058        8852      3477     16860     74456     53858     11589     36708

 India                    123867    281753     44201       |     71524      9358        6860     35581     45011     26678        58      3233     11887

 Taiwan                    37270     57222     56224       |     69406     44777       11173     34971     55389     15491     26526     29635     85467

 Thailand                      0         0    139422       |     57238       146           .    139422     66875     15210         .       146     34762

 Bahrain                  270577    332463    412885       |     55319    157880      340768     72117         .     55319         .    157880     71745

 Italy                    193582     72530     84179       |     24398      4770       35659      2643      7447     14211      7398      2806      6932

 Egypt                         0       240         0       |      5083         .           .         .         .         .      5083         .         .

 United Kingdom             2009      1408         0       |      3855        42           .         .         .      3855         .        42         .

 Japan                     27233      2420     14736       |      3557     34247        3918      2580      8803      2495       588     30515      6404

 Germany                   19369      6871     16929       |      2647       970        5298     12804      2643         .       974         .       892

 Spain                     14778      3435      1031       |      1487        43        1039         .         .         .      1487         .       190

 Netherlands               11097     31376      4111       |      1212      4310        4111         .       942       270         .         .      4310

 _ASEAN                     2974      2201    210700       |     57295       153         809    209920     66875     15217        50       153     34762

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0      1164         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .