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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                March 12, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                           Category 617:  MMF TWILL AND 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                   3055907   2544304   2031021       |   1202374   1757950     1214574    429968    856941    547640    742573    907083    452585

 China                   1058623    946910   1130810       |    664366    626044      674963    269668    376594    282537    380758    387927    107638

 Pakistan                 454937    380596    158383       |    190991    438590      107753         .    255469    105529     86250    164917    187423

 Thailand                  82120       694    170288       |    121857    179479       82493     87795     68897       309    164761     33294     34412

 Bahrain                  669898    536090    160242       |     76079    442251       80919         .     79323     76079     75670    286137     80444

 India                      6905     14671      7559       |     39589     10271        2281      5278      4692     34720      4982      5466         .

 Indonesia                275921    233185      6699       |     38660         .        6699         .         .     38660         .         .         .

 Taiwan                   128880      4180     28697       |     21690      4086        3010     25687      3408        30     22188        91      2849

 Japan                      2438     21005     30527       |     14966      7383       22757       899     15040        20         .        76      7678

 Korea, South               1561     34407     32193       |     14030      8173        6993      4225     35164        15      1058        96      7019

 Germany                     132       394         0       |      8508      8351          72         .      8400        72        36      8327        96

 Turkey                    14672       147     17309       |      8170      7674       15744         .      1565      6783      3265         .     12735

 Malaysia                      0     13432     18302       |      2704      2798       18302         .         .      2704      2798         .         .

 Colombia                      0         0         0       |       504         .           .         .       504         .         .         .         .

 United Kingdom               75       380         0       |        90       168           .         .         .        36        54        84       570

 Italy                      6875      5627     26841       |        82       306       22306      4555         .        82       178         .       172

 _ASEAN                   358041    247311    336769       |    163221    182277      248974     87795     68897     41673    167559     33294     36595

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |       504         .           .         .       504         .         .         .         .

 _CBI                          0         0     14829       |         .     11244       14829         .         .         .         .     11244      8209

 _CAFTA                        0         0     14829       |         .     11244       14829         .         .         .         .     11244      8209