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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                March 12, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                           Category 369:  OTHER COTTON MANUFACTURES
                                                      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                  28113866  25667834  25033719       |  25046370  20030795    12163592  10762170  11400780  11729216  11406724   9538993   9539459

 China                   9895445   9231973   8006608       |   8681478   5898643     3879719   3579518   3796064   4215989   4585249   2482093   2004360

 Pakistan                8684330   7862183   9362290       |   7947531   7336160     4684510   3870528   3487619   3652228   3448022   3589708   3909745

 India                   5933923   5509668   4737272       |   5995303   4445988     2149889   2172006   2854126   2738043   2341960   2277140   2365503

 Bangladesh               691521    574233    843769       |    657125    616830      453920    305317    427769    268029    242243    334540    396582

 Brazil                   297424    390018    276054       |    331341    244412       89023    145982    118270    232509     59949    114561    190815

 Mexico                   284425    331327    160563       |    216969    275999      105174     68997     62371    115483    108918    146106    142812

 Turkey                   467437    362027    271097       |    174594    194787      159879     88794     83929     83265     94720    102958     70456

 Thailand                 286575    153200    159944       |    155554    131762       86979     74878     72530     77541     77105     62043     80077

 Egypt                    165658    147385    171211       |    113028    137936       80615     95246     63253     35513     87048     45033     85849

 Taiwan                   152244     98066    131982       |    105192     63822       48793     77711     54475     14553    112984      7565     10800

 Vietnam                   40362     74364     53473       |     97236     49061       27266     12937     58833     44635     39978     21892      9824

 Israel                   163635     88117     85090       |     93542     59748       38281     32193     38246     58491     16202     39841     41951

 Portugal                 154563    140271    108259       |     79583     68563       86250     25820     50337     26072     29197     38757     31359

 Indonesia                159396     75134     31188       |     44799     38508       10130     21131      5212     21080     18791     38002       802

 Cambodia                  90450     26127     36881       |     43136      7350       12055         .     26319     14531     16040      5984      1345

 _ASEAN                   607680    399921    341027       |    360228    256752      161599    146723    174035    161665    165954    139314    109042

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            58488     45137     52665       |     43145     40624       26083     24091     17924     21852      5934     32982     11585

 _CBI                      33780     27528     27796       |      9398     31248       14727      8508       688      7819      7052     16803     16773

 _CAFTA                    32573     27528     27529       |      9398     30353       14726      8241       688      7819      7052     15908     16733

 _SUB-SAHARA                 243       353       325       |       115       472         267      1210       345        42       209       226       178