_________________________________________ | | | BI-WEEKLY | | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | March 12, 2009 | HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! | | | | By Category | |_________________________________________| Category 665: MMF FLOOR COVERINGS 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 9101577 8836186 7029097 | 8076045 6780133 3269338 2526356 3348206 3547219 3921005 3820936 2927100 China 3219479 2480700 1752252 | 4077043 2428690 842261 822764 1217738 1747133 2150299 1420432 722992 Egypt 1320684 1452430 1578107 | 1725251 1737220 943145 542503 583975 1010572 563913 987506 774514 Belgium / Luxembourg . . . | 609308 487139 228940 416647 434519 153568 233925 260303 258229 India 205764 278854 176942 | 412138 189444 69024 92042 249795 115741 96996 115024 80531 Turkey 580999 697756 534953 | 332881 424119 298769 199247 178108 131286 203625 192670 272501 Netherlands 442135 494765 327999 | 230017 328983 160292 107480 155704 77266 167290 142385 145424 Indonesia 197257 148069 142708 | 153122 231080 60329 73970 128235 26122 158896 95505 96689 Thailand 138740 189564 207843 | 128258 80077 125534 79243 37973 83210 37437 27401 22741 Saudi Arabia 184988 213992 141919 | 59978 137321 125264 1410 5911 4514 109942 74037 44397 Australia 30649 12685 12392 | 58190 8592 658 9115 9115 57605 112 5607 2873 Korea, South 156607 125851 84918 | 47805 363793 78379 13736 45250 24692 18611 339527 252791 United Kingdom 45371 45879 101750 | 46849 51546 64434 32288 6148 19205 48320 18827 34147 Israel 54763 44184 48128 | 34486 30496 34245 12826 1757 4914 29365 29029 12261 South Africa 0 0 0 | 31499 . . . 19101 12398 . . . Bulgaria 70642 15959 8057 | 21298 . 8057 6143 . 21298 . . 12398 _ASEAN 335997 337703 350551 | 284673 311198 185867 153216 166254 112534 196392 122916 119585 _SUB-SAHARA 0 0 0 | 31499 . . . 19101 12398 . . . _CBI 1307 179 120 | 10 119 120 . . . . 117 21 _CAFTA 1297 179 120 | . 117 120 . . . . 117 21 _ANDEAN (ATPA) 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .