_________________________________________ | | | BI-WEEKLY | | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | March 12, 2009 | HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! | | | | By Category | |_________________________________________| Category 649: MMF BRAS / OTH BODY SUPPORT GARM Data in Doz. (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 3781046 3362458 3472846 | 3174597 2700708 1638900 1388716 1556301 1489814 1548804 1305605 1216423 China 2191595 1535126 1923182 | 1948615 1429559 964322 666567 1009915 893131 991085 692350 480056 Indonesia 396617 412079 268774 | 398780 271774 130060 120175 167892 196841 126857 148984 131831 Thailand 343974 326896 322067 | 235569 328635 129510 162206 161096 94838 109997 131714 200194 Sri Lanka 85487 84106 57512 | 91579 88343 19832 24894 28619 47104 58517 37792 51788 Honduras 121992 164369 152342 | 78216 91142 84239 65680 9540 53735 42961 43480 64165 Malaysia 43031 47652 83416 | 66014 3145 13787 60192 55540 18365 1393 1040 5235 Israel 27758 14650 48930 | 48416 35528 28099 12459 7217 39205 21007 13945 18285 Dominican Republic 73053 135061 125131 | 47350 79270 56701 55091 19183 23088 45217 45375 30068 El Salvador 56014 86302 71921 | 35621 62525 36838 27340 12268 21282 27103 33990 31557 Bangladesh 61687 44709 80281 | 35299 58244 29699 42571 15180 12088 23343 27507 43522 Philippines 43080 63432 51639 | 35186 26722 17312 32786 14811 21982 2720 15693 18441 India 44206 30438 34311 | 26317 23278 11980 11378 15154 12888 10307 8192 36515 Mexico 103913 115398 47032 | 17132 26416 21469 23996 3483 9331 10469 14871 13983 Costa Rica 26979 38496 35367 | 16066 23603 19049 14013 2973 2458 13437 17221 11305 Vietnam 9700 4941 20231 | 15089 17160 4451 15212 9932 4339 7780 4504 7802 _ASEAN 841436 865906 758626 | 758526 660635 299403 395352 411947 338818 254258 306912 372555 _CBI 325985 497182 425752 | 190342 311194 219342 178554 46018 108548 147880 163567 168305 _CAFTA 324412 496049 425084 | 189906 309523 218912 178439 45894 108172 147474 162942 167605 _ANDEAN (ATPA) 6844 11321 14431 | 7521 13745 7604 6061 3772 1787 4436 6763 11610 _SUB-SAHARA 458 58 5 | . 39 . . . . . 39 .