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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 225:  BLUE DENIM FABRIC
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                   4321694   4161135   2294816       |   2870863         .     1559821   1075438   1261271   1145879   1107143   1231141    952427

 China                   1012423   1326748    695166       |    688089         .      675038    214988    503952    232330    309018    308492    215524

 Turkey                   362175    335517    309785       |    673282         .      368783    250759    127708    296947    278872    190694     50892

 Mexico                   774839    481720    301450       |    441551         .      119758    182647     65089    277124     85097    227356    142768

 Italy                   1127512   1116839    232445       |    371411         .      147750    145863    199322     87611    177118    150331    282182

 Taiwan                   414923    331784    325531       |    301932         .      101266    108987    183361    151933     91011    155620    106924

 Japan                    401196    237130    179113       |    225738         .      102730     19302     83745     98527    136700     59304    147166

 Morocco                   17407         0     18935       |     80895         .       15123     18935         .         .     28243     52652         .

 Bahrain                       0    101539     59458       |     59458         .           .         .     59458         .         .     59458         .

 Pakistan                  74765     73608      7271       |     10434         .        1343      7021         .       360         .     10434      3196

 Spain                     21467     30484     22973       |      6763         .       23507        19     22329       717       799      5964         .

 Portugal                      0         0     14142       |      6569         .           .     14142         .         .         .      6569         .

 Denmark                       0         0        32       |      1994         .           .         .         .         .       195      1799      1320

 Nicaragua                     0         0         0       |      1718         .           .       253       140       139         .      1718         .

 Honduras                      .         .         .       |       557         .           .         .         .       139         .       418         .

 Korea, South                  0         0         0       |       274         .        4188         .         .         .         .       274         .

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |      2275         .           .       253       140       278         .      2136         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |      2275         .           .       253       140       278         .      2136         .

 _ASEAN                    70926     83277     14175       |         .         .           .         .     14173         .         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .