_________________________________________ | | | BI-WEEKLY | | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | March 12, 2009 | HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! | | | | By Category | |_________________________________________| Category 636: MMF DRESSES Data in Doz. (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 1442637 1409798 1099505 | 1564706 1160608 526577 454626 664046 720302 793089 511850 503542 China 824341 773392 601838 | 875076 549312 313096 222721 377726 424377 443789 212648 204518 Vietnam 178486 215634 148395 | 276177 202944 55597 81574 106469 114182 154010 98070 71894 Indonesia 80977 109447 56383 | 91107 66887 24126 26950 32317 48474 32939 31679 40355 Philippines 67274 41895 71804 | 76877 80184 31596 31639 37075 31211 33763 43154 39738 India 44839 51208 37928 | 54589 79120 17178 17305 24011 17889 41527 35485 32680 Sri Lanka 55286 51799 45699 | 48264 40048 18881 22281 20848 26111 17900 20344 19005 Mexico 50904 40442 16201 | 19714 31171 10558 6076 2405 10153 13719 19207 19300 Cambodia 28457 24140 30883 | 19146 10014 22308 3711 9890 9802 1482 6202 11966 El Salvador 14122 7109 14363 | 17968 7385 5846 6391 7574 7289 8064 3595 1871 Taiwan 6577 5480 5246 | 13270 8699 3092 1620 7766 1918 7799 1791 5368 Guatemala 34536 24051 8554 | 13118 17315 3688 4718 2421 6280 9070 8843 8964 Bangladesh 13369 10463 14121 | 10880 4733 600 7549 11654 2574 2747 3685 5866 Thailand 3184 3353 6600 | 8050 2634 3830 3737 4505 2279 2106 1105 1767 Turkey 7287 5812 3733 | 5368 4433 1965 2393 2927 2164 2558 1899 2992 Korea, South 4830 6462 3361 | 4990 5464 1209 1887 2877 2185 3322 2275 2827 _ASEAN 358598 396375 321188 | 476364 366993 139573 152619 192784 207957 226522 183437 169501 _CBI 49052 32147 23976 | 31692 36757 10142 11511 10105 13928 17997 14073 21812 _CAFTA 49052 32120 23976 | 31692 34715 10142 11511 10105 13928 17960 13049 20544 _ANDEAN (ATPA) 5885 4963 4291 | 3436 3612 2538 1315 1309 1477 2681 1856 2648 _SUB-SAHARA 143 95 1639 | 348 1841 97 1556 125 174 197 1051 667