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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             November 20, 2008
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                           Category 222:  KNIT FABRIC
                                                      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                   6035595   6492229   6858172       |   6100164         .     3003159   2793938   3608846   2597909   2700959   2732083   2766449

 Korea, South            2487612   2936638   2241575       |   2029308         .     1083559   1051502   1153298    874817    880510    903125    948672

 India                    656790    768051   1831653       |   1524735         .      677879    603145   1242360    345665    645014    826877    561276

 China                    715387    785791    909266       |    806787         .      474183    450233    400441    445046    307997    382064    440147

 Taiwan                   559116    430473    439801       |    724082         .      230965    232714    192667    278767    367245    263478    291345

 Mexico                   524360    428541    427762       |    275087         .      122399    148736    174924    214594    140499     90947    115391

 Japan                    131719    133748    139132       |    204559         .       66858     60568     66739     94672     72809     90890     65150

 Italy                    119549    107843     83363       |    118019         .       57602     21307     31153     52642     54753     57398     70448

 Indonesia                 19581     38028    151471       |     88249         .       31215     39523     81215     84202     64664     12234     55844

 Vietnam                  107296    181498    175562       |     70544         .      137758     50573    115652     82653     51427     19116     75550

 Turkey                    72137     30010     67021       |     63678         .       52625     20387     37251       744     51541     12137     38754

 Brazil                    32984     35426     48759       |     46938         .       20973     14522     30404     28117     14528     22068      5259

 Germany                   47424     19350     46590       |     28813         .        8400     37930     10890     15467      8601     16700     16816

 Pakistan                    962     42977      5633       |     19102         .        2221        45      5135     29318        64       107        71

 France                    19787     14391      9287       |     17355         .        1046      1947      8143      3765      9116      5586      6125

 Egypt                     23850     23200      8260       |     16124         .        9139      9562      3456      6008      4589      5527      3451

 _ASEAN                   202451    260724    340378       |    162222         .      172280    102421    205744    167859    117957     32957    142530

 _SUB-SAHARA                 195     20939      1116       |     15729         .        1925       778        44     12413      1612      2769        20

 _CBI                      12779     24163      8667       |     13478         .        7662     21889      8091      2019      7059      6420      6665

 _CAFTA                    12779     24163      8667       |     13467         .        7660     21888      8091      2019      7048      6420      6664

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              411      1850      5811       |      1334         .         594      1680      7539      2029        43       626       260