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| BI-WEEKLY |
| PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | November 20, 2008
| HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! |
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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)
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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 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