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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)
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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 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