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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             November 20, 2008
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                           Category 332:  COTTON HOSIERY
                                                      Data in Dpr.

(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                  14876329  14071927  14877427       |  15908748         .     6634568   7473880   7313109   6583087   7253234   6803189   6531404

 Pakistan                3174543   3290169   3287718       |   4112025         .     1681590   1740147   1649120   1578751   2108578   1645692   1630848

 Honduras                3286699   3148233   3366133       |   4079581         .     1386002   1509843   1739755   1799187   1746712   1717930   1581219

 China                   2051266   1596051   1915494       |   2071387         .      942904   1102770    865236    737483    805683   1058414    691859

 Mexico                  1451513   1215219   1534645       |   1424892         .      605981    591377    826036    664189    674122    613039    713999

 Korea, South            1173059   1133150   1511401       |   1236824         .      452540    752195    660030    476716    529492    571900    527628

 Dominican Republic      1244154   1197191    951391       |    801240         .      445918    572308    498321    344342    288386    384937    306062

 Costa Rica              1000638   1198081   1001196       |    774586         .      488120    646565    501566    375601    339942    357671    423930

 Taiwan                   187821    214447    289074       |    334285         .      135837    194683    112590     67607    265718     64053    102105

 Malaysia                 295830    200407    116616       |    212915         .       17142     45547     30270     51065    120900     81750    123358

 Colombia                 278147    101410    111096       |    149735         .       39498     38775     50836     86232     73831     21344     79718

 Turkey                   168674    207886     89496       |    127489         .       39449     18828     79218     71534     31150     67891     63128

 Guatemala                 37849     25200    106378       |    103353         .       64899     13640     41618     90826     56024     21264     44659

 Indonesia                 97875     88990    113851       |     87666         .      139912     73542     69764     80154     43655      7617     29831

 Cambodia                  56425     78157     76188       |     87312         .       44180     36400     39788     21337     45112     24880     26142

 Hong Kong                 15802     10686     19392       |     66222         .        4844      6169     13224      2001     45140     19082     26096

 _CBI                    5569340   5568705   5425098       |   5758783         .     2387957   2742377   2781260   2609956   2431067   2481822   2355872

 _CAFTA                  5569340   5568705   5425098       |   5758763         .     2384939   2742377   2781260   2609956   2431067   2481802   2355872

 _ASEAN                   569458    430192    591622       |    523966         .      299447    219620    233270    214634    257981    193731    305628

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)           288435    108642    114608       |    154259         .       43017     47530     52388     87666     76100     23132     84289

 _SUB-SAHARA               54062     29817       290       |       156         .          39        53       114       176        76        80        65