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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 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