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