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