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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 607:  OTHER STAPLE FIBER YARN
                                                      Data in Kg..

(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                    637815    792522    688675       |    549617    498009      321945    295393    371513    278318    253055    207280    200017

 Indonesia                232510    367155    298566       |    215538    204275      117421    140478    203263    115218     61008    104666     96661

 China                     26484     19086     74786       |     75471     32596       54314     23539     19883     54179      5756     12746     29544

 Korea, South              51008     17948     48949       |     50466     12882       23147     14308     45242         .     21306         .      8346

 Thailand                 134839     57126         0       |     42336     68040           .         .     21168         .     43848     45360       910

 Pakistan                  19845     37439     28005       |     41291     39917       28005         .     17942     23349     19845         .     20072

 Mexico                    19366     99094     38877       |     37872     24966       38474     12437         .     35075      5215      3835     32633

 Egypt                      6557         0     43742       |     29266         .        7335     29939      6468     29266         .         .         .

 India                         0     42030     64373       |     23371         .         180     62924     12650     10721         .         .         .

 Philippines                   0         0         0       |     19981     19981           .         .     19981         .     19981     19981        16

 Germany                     302     36582        96       |      6370       149          71        25        46      6314         .       149         .

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |      2742         .           .         .       432      2310         .         .         .

 Taiwan                     1459      2777     20943       |      2616      1411        2334        20      2027      1081      1535        35      1376

 Italy                      1219       686      1245       |      2128       764        2900       177         .       791      1464       508       239

 Australia                 42142       394      1253       |       156         .          76        94     17265         .       156         .         .

 Turkey                        0        75      8049       |        14        98           .      4364      3685        14         .        32        75

 _ASEAN                   367349    425811    338936       |    277855    384830      157791    140478    244412    115218    197413    189965     97587

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .