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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             November 20, 2008
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |               By Category               |
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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)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 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