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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 314:  COTTON POPLIN / BROADCLOTH FAB.
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                  11645192  10219864   7226415       |   7951422   6230690     3388835   2844167   5168222   3401043   3848432   2410113   2169344

 China                   7014632   5226915   4968100       |   5836453   3509389     2442342   2196710   3609915   2463122   2728470   1274096   1056158

 Pakistan                1567205   1939145    610984       |    573236    760129      164592    227676    550726    226334    174183    181250    418703

 Taiwan                      148    162077    244810       |    511207    356392           .     32664    364709    241883    213435    169800     94774

 Indonesia                711931    784938    631833       |    366380    596053      355639    148388    257529    147002    242861    329776    167493

 Japan                    196462    295463    171945       |    178860    142352      140105     29975    100019    141706     54646     90377     31300

 India                    316664     16217    100005       |    178061      1720       76411     19655     39917     20800    123649       694     64602

 Thailand                 681993   1013432     39742       |     65680     54478       10849     24106      3386     52961      9418     54313     36990

 Germany                   59904      5983     67295       |     61327     61575           .      3274    123221      1786       394      3783     57958

 Korea, South             216679    121876    135348       |     36820    205233       26192     94821     59800     19088     62618    137964     15738

 Turkey                    17999      4176     45907       |     33358      6599       20513     16324     12147     18153     13664      5366         .

 Macau                         .         .         .       |     32340         .           .         .         .     32340         .         .         .

 Italy                     81061     53098     27936       |     23309      8609        8452     21104      8048     14093      2764      7197     21303

 Philippines                   0         0         0       |     21354         .           .         .     21354         .         .         .         .

 Mexico                    35787     12448    132552       |     15091     92870      121757     10805         .     15091     78349     14521         .

 Malaysia                   3971     22305     18183       |      9396     21959        4187      4238     16386      2084      7312     15270     18898

 _ASEAN                  1400806   1824239    690568       |    464578    675703      371255    177084    298655    203507    259899    402572    223381

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0       512       |       537       147         512         .         .       525        12        39       108

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

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

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             3392         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .