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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 317:  COTTON TWILL 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                   7186162   7042295   8153381       |   6768721         .     3584424   3868124   3222203   3910735   3057909   2367918   2681175

 China                   2924329   3159588   4154120       |   3993334         .     1409298   2232329   1898964   1596874   1908833   1295435   1254178

 Pakistan                1364856   1084160   2720068       |   1235775         .     1205552    935164    821353   1712263    488672    316965    909460

 Taiwan                  1052933   1040693    294695       |    421334         .      337403    211688     19454    290494    117657    190905     71600

 Thailand                 147310    149508     54719       |    213521         .      114899     21249     13449     24222    103043    110478         .

 India                    164186    264395     89285       |    199653         .      121929    103323     14054     70825    131867     67777    110511

 Bahrain                  274561    170923    330136       |    152057         .           .         .    203553    126583         .    152057         .

 Germany                  240145     95867     41842       |    114138         .        6223     75559     15211     26710     52585     61515     82373

 Mexico                   137212    112452    120282       |     91573         .       46846     45792     74906     15362     91566         .     82416

 United Arab Emirates          0         0     55726       |     57801         .       51119     55726         .         .     57801         .         .

 Italy                    266246    432207     42166       |     55221         .      170522    122719     10471     25350     24759     23150     81049

 Turkey                    91317     44838     38863       |     53218         .       71685     13737     28735       393     17898     35318     13380

 Austria                   50002         0     45006       |     46633         .           .         .     45006         .         .     46633         .

 Japan                     29767     72762     13838       |     32092         .       15679      3640      6080      8108     19495     11971      8747

 Brazil                    21663     27649     18477       |     22050         .       12411      1691     14935      3611     13350      8700     15216

 Korea, South              40235     61824     13734       |     20971         .       19171     20472      4067       323      9559     11160     17748

 _ASEAN                   204998    233301     68953       |    213529         .      114991     35483     13449     24779    103049    110478       184

 _CBI                      46075      3992      1368       |     17854         .          69         .       137      1368         .     17854      2415

 _CAFTA                    46075      3992      1368       |     17854         .          69         .       137      1368         .     17854      2270

 _SUB-SAHARA                2640      6552      2826       |      1134         .           .      2827         .         .        25      1109         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            19148         0         0       |       815         .           .         .         .        28       787         .      4894