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| BI-WEEKLY |
| PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | March 12, 2009
| HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! |
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Category 218: FABRICS OF YARNS OF DIFF. COLORS
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)
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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 6044734 5291227 4475536 | 4661079 2691762 1619034 1570509 2158204 1890132 2209837 1131774 1035363
China 2527985 2520938 2267292 | 2532559 1465680 599157 654458 841945 1076263 1566113 558859 274474
Italy 760541 936508 519826 | 550741 160530 298367 217823 639568 38353 159872 42056 126872
India 714553 467853 477177 | 436000 298335 149093 227426 139106 190145 184182 156769 200753
Taiwan 605732 408746 129642 | 380294 144177 45693 67658 290952 57438 66650 37027 103361
Japan 246781 102308 93395 | 242889 13858 64469 27423 11462 215927 23615 7498 9820
Mexico 156637 73785 171641 | 191833 137916 55875 69734 51109 156427 35436 111739 75540
Turkey 334113 146541 301082 | 101667 167573 129331 107083 69709 56854 37129 88628 82890
Thailand 94308 88029 70304 | 47966 26522 440 70387 4544 43210 2030 6855 60526
Brazil 46622 51845 56189 | 46336 33888 26329 29912 18836 15210 17171 27270 5130
Portugal 155296 145320 83025 | 37629 33534 54550 24590 44698 8348 18484 17339 6274
France 36406 50334 35712 | 26841 10282 12246 13819 14105 7257 9528 5847 5872
Uruguay 0 1907 4831 | 10324 201 951 3609 9702 914 . 201 .
Spain 14013 8517 14360 | 8715 4605 15697 7152 3427 5343 449 4170 453
Hong Kong 0 56407 7263 | 7092 1412 4379 2950 3256 13 3837 1164 262
Pakistan 189520 108773 83352 | 6238 37336 78094 3403 668 1797 37026 88 8295
_ASEAN 94608 88029 73879 | 52073 33001 482 70456 4545 43274 6073 13334 82120
_CBI 9246 3939 22387 | 2451 210 22387 . . 2451 199 11 .
_CAFTA 9246 3939 22387 | 2451 210 22387 . . 2451 199 11 .
_SUB-SAHARA 1853 603 477 | 421 45275 51 348 552 66 25 45250 50
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 1907 190 286 | . 12 286 13 . . . . 33