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