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| BI-WEEKLY |
| PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | November 20, 2008
| HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! |
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Category 200: YARN FOR RETAIL SALE,SEWING THREAD
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)
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Country 10/2007 11/2007 9/2008 | 10/2008 11/2008 8/23 9/06 9/20 10/04 10/18 11/01 11/15
(P) (P) (P) (P) (P) (P) (P) (P) (P)
World 1571504 1297436 1348947 | 1317862 . 664840 510214 524352 553985 618859 511486 564021
Turkey 282674 178492 305803 | 369539 . 145202 93666 118594 176555 148759 148192 207397
Mexico 316143 322896 267106 | 297099 . 131075 93902 149014 124692 151347 106216 106931
China 236572 243204 274391 | 290679 . 172677 116750 123050 119313 151398 110707 88110
Thailand 164948 90120 76977 | 131458 . 49428 21790 56662 52147 66282 55404 8601
India 65469 67463 41209 | 37678 . 52361 83613 15692 2990 16218 21378 50669
Germany 45375 28127 16702 | 27141 . 9344 31961 9360 8515 12845 11499 16093
Vietnam 54210 22615 13289 | 25074 . 11600 613 11985 1239 2914 22160 3327
Saudi Arabia 0 0 11739 | 23887 . . . 11739 23887 . . .
Taiwan 8290 7755 6717 | 17073 . 40825 4085 2753 1726 12518 3237 8705
Egypt 12642 21073 50 | 16981 . 24408 . 50 . 11090 5891 5914
France 19191 9523 14240 | 15983 . 6256 1274 6747 6463 13399 2495 4910
Indonesia 28290 4423 2540 | 12951 . 46 23385 . 19 10874 2077 16807
Italy 28293 20432 3049 | 8658 . 3002 1410 1678 937 4331 4208 7967
Peru 20203 9575 4903 | 8565 . 357 3901 1202 3510 1902 3358 1530
Israel 2279 1251 10888 | 5845 . 90 21 6111 4767 625 5220 7908
_ASEAN 247448 117608 92806 | 169566 . 61074 45812 68648 53405 80070 79724 28736
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 20203 9575 4903 | 8568 . 597 3912 1202 3510 1905 3358 1530
_CBI 25 20305 21136 | 921 . 43 20598 696 203 287 630 9675
_CAFTA 25 20305 21136 | 921 . 31 20598 696 203 287 630 9675
_SUB-SAHARA 0 0 16 | 213 . . . 15 15 94 113 33