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