_________________________________________ | | | BI-WEEKLY | | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | March 12, 2009 | HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! | | | | By Category | |_________________________________________| Category 362: COTTON BEDSPREADS / QUILTS Data in Nos. (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 5010936 4671814 4184697 | 3966433 4882855 2532760 1947697 1775046 1432556 2599428 2070961 2541644 Pakistan 2958558 2809433 2403799 | 2517411 3675015 1445831 1135073 1160578 746805 1943069 1373412 1971017 China 1188771 1076296 869564 | 710399 517522 533994 459159 282330 332311 315971 296428 322614 India 248850 194546 266383 | 230760 175901 194630 96388 90884 136835 85391 95211 85925 Bahrain 74212 44188 129192 | 108714 162466 91298 47062 61408 26820 50744 124684 37782 Turkey 36004 21335 90639 | 85968 30899 46980 12308 41478 48184 29048 13699 25563 Bangladesh 24200 16396 74780 | 75398 95590 16928 41836 48246 16040 58560 34206 29952 Portugal 77398 70669 75774 | 72662 53473 50549 24920 34084 38944 22318 38540 16570 Cambodia 42412 35496 29268 | 54337 312 21018 8706 12288 31501 10752 228 60 Israel 55848 62126 34959 | 24205 17417 18123 13334 10212 6705 13635 11757 4343 Italy 34806 26659 20310 | 20870 16637 18558 6909 6348 9979 9033 7779 10656 Spain 50559 60871 40209 | 19999 36552 24868 15347 . 19982 18999 17570 366 Philippines 131070 154672 53126 | 13680 51480 27446 31533 21600 . 14208 31752 27143 Vietnam 24708 19687 15703 | 9646 16008 202 10124 206 8292 9495 7634 141 Thailand 11464 7125 12894 | 6774 146 24103 426 . 1374 5477 69 820 Mexico 24867 6263 14724 | 5189 7376 9654 6249 1659 3168 1398 5642 2980 _ASEAN 209726 217207 136006 | 84563 68066 73486 75157 34124 41230 39973 39719 28267 _SUB-SAHARA 1601 26 62 | 483 225 62 . 490 . . 207 18 _CBI 112 1771 506 | 79 1573 555 . . 79 . 596 1073 _CAFTA 112 1760 506 | 79 1573 555 . . 79 . 596 1073 _ANDEAN (ATPA) 156 0 0 | 23 3036 12 28 14 . . 3024 16