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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 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         .