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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 326:  COTTON SATEEN 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                   3627680   4336310   4414200       |   4771805         .     1343030   2145570   1743002   2199810   2199200   1717560   2352413

 China                    835990   1762685    917217       |   2070375         .      191171    518059    151564   1115578    777930    501285     55345

 Pakistan                1429641   1269335   2020793       |   1671017         .      697097    807403    935386    650725    836201    834816   1308260

 Bahrain                  195487    284599    828158       |    384290         .      104064    353883    492302     84189    274535    109755    523886

 United Arab Emirates          0    153680    389932       |    184399         .      207744    248821     86761    171584    106862     77537    239465

 India                    187472     27225     35984       |    141444         .        8089     81223      3154     32954    112432     29012     18659

 Thailand                 139455    207134         0       |    107382         .        4074         .         .         .         .    107382     70439

 Taiwan                    34516      8203     78302       |     48256         .        9509     36166     38292     51793     11185       307     66613

 Italy                    206216    285914     16679       |     47016         .       88667     53222      3139     18393     19393     19613     14546

 Korea, South             159292     76838     55488       |     43226         .       10857      6389     15550     42412     37212      2629     36652

 Germany                   29857     23608      9028       |     21207         .          36     13169      2473         .      4552     16655      1408

 Japan                      5957     22621     12658       |     17792         .        1869     11939       710       485      5977     11395     10447

 Turkey                    22527      7804     22081       |     10643         .        1698      1975     10050         .      7951      2692         .

 Egypt                         0         0         0       |      9906         .           .         .         .      9906         .         .         .

 Finland                     473       404     19197       |      8480         .         107        20       112     16590      2952       298       294

 Portugal                    133      1980       120       |      2008         .        2040      4943         .         .        33      1974      2103

 _ASEAN                   462808    297943         0       |    107748         .        4074       179         .         .       366    107382     71096

 _SUB-SAHARA                 171         0         0       |       492         .           .       295         .         .         .       492       900

 _CBI                       8891         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                     8891         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .        9014         .         .         .         .         .         .