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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 237:  PLAYSUITS, SUNSUITS, ETC
                                                      Data in Doz.

(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                    224267    201033     88656       |     89752         .       35184     43645     34240     41356     32457     47664     56921

 Guatemala                 38727     15999     17676       |     26240         .        2212      4903      4014     13270      3203     20546      5127

 China                     46433     77772     10055       |     15208         .        6425      6298      4770      4478      6368      7413     12623

 India                      8099      3430      6909       |     12395         .         429      4351      2674      2546      7010      4416      9074

 Pakistan                    885      1268      1021       |      9706         .        3192      2092       130       317      6716      2700       358

 Mexico                     9314      8775      5567       |      6570         .        2117      1613      2783      2658      2797      3376      5731

 El Salvador                1970      1041      2062       |      4234         .         941      1185       688      3741       699      1224      1145

 Dominican Republic          208       610         0       |      3804         .          22       342         .        11      2129      1675        17

 Bangladesh                 5096      3315      5599       |      3613         .        6000      3726      1226      2484       855      2651      6691

 Honduras                   1269      1482      1909       |      1720         .         270       209      1107       942       697       852      1307

 Indonesia                 35825     18971     14969       |       768         .        2789      7971      3179      4467       277       489       740

 Kenya                         0         0       190       |       714         .           .       190         .         .         .       709         .

 Vietnam                    3940     27797      3571       |       608         .        1160       228      2525       471       286       321      6021

 Thailand                  13978      6398      7308       |       603         .        1375      1902      4835      1454        33        61       217

 Brunei                        0         0       350       |       555         .           .         .        36       456       431         .       118

 Cambodia                   5404       825      3291       |       528         .         212      2608       986       756         .         .         .

 _CBI                      45116     19132     21774       |     36202         .        4667      6814      5944     20154      6931     24297      7601

 _CAFTA                    45116     19132     21774       |     36201         .        3671      6814      5944     17964      6931     24297      7601

 _ASEAN                    64567     56489     34713       |      3284         .        8210     16158     13769      7683      1186       930     14114

 _SUB-SAHARA                5958      6065       388       |       715         .          17       392         .       155         .       709         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             1319      4174      1176       |       626         .         866      1049       528       463       172       334       239