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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                March 12, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                           Category 669:  OTHER MMF 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                  22987158  25068046  18523290       |  21957704  18144183     9178230   7815969   9105131  10409475   9752006   8584277  11200564

 China                  13695369  16753540  10224293       |  13959579  11239473     5239585   4570298   6026682   6285066   6108978   5209167   7165776

 India                   1678714   1372102   1658439       |   1626988   1382623      779818    739773    827633    760297    729179    535083    858824

 Mexico                  2021210   2183946   1963566       |   1624763   1360505     1024463    792574    546165    833898    772421    703371    689821

 Bangladesh               982723   1075643     52511       |    913345    894017       45161         .     83585    501378    632795    423604    665436

 Thailand                 785673    718548    762407       |    882457    882216      349769    401981    262778    632905    337198    478811    451539

 Vietnam                  394454    278693    833940       |    803582    503214      467757    430474    556336    187910    254740    361661    281411

 Indonesia                673619    484153    640681       |    721634    690698      206668    288868    287982    398871    322126    299745    418833

 Turkey                   364755    237331    612916       |    353939    238081      266401    228642    137128    233364    100513    106756    178084

 Korea, South             203196    254313    252820       |    312465    124519       87581    153693    125272    123106    104224     84477     67127

 Taiwan                   141656    130555     55307       |    116180    128309       23992     31583     19013    100076     49046     50804     76764

 Philippines              110509    120745     70718       |     95226     77040       52656     18163     36689     58494      7448     34687     66873

 Saudi Arabia              99644     47511     49316       |     67745     16351       49316     15640         .     32634     51462         .     15260

 Pakistan                  34092     11063     81272       |     63388     53786       22584     35549     37294     63162         .     38769     15464

 Guatemala                 51959     67869     55236       |     53565     43086       49834       136       280     36360     17034     29656     16814

 Portugal                  42376     30588     12155       |     49232      2959        3266      3634     28435     19563      3608       518      5007

 _ASEAN                  1968298   1604049   2347179       |   2504553   2192643     1105187   1150628   1145198   1279381    921952   1214238   1245914

 _CBI                      77249     85664    191491       |     89710    161292      129433     30307     19834     56363     68316     64930     50453

 _CAFTA                    77249     85479    191400       |     89370    161060      129226     30191     19718     56247     68150     64814     50337

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             2503     18498      6822       |     21981     16283         281      6552     15089       228     14468       270     17888

 _SUB-SAHARA                1644      8574      3213       |       869       779        1029      2176        20       612       721       225        91