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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 333:  M/B SUIT-TYPE COATS, COTTON
                                                      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                     59577     56417     65975       |     65972         .       27905     28040     38491     28079     27053     30183     19553

 China                     41935     44058     48921       |     33145         .       18674     20143     29279     19502     12004     16468     12060

 Vietnam                     995       252      3180       |      7843         .        2280      1417      1466      1742      4188      2914        13

 India                      1555       640      1550       |      7259         .         432       594       906       205      2689      4443      1161

 Indonesia                  2173      1317      2617       |      5400         .        1323      3159       328      1899      2358      1496       351

 Thailand                   3783      2610      2612       |      3995         .           .       390      2004      1044      2204      1790       982

 Pakistan                   2915      1118      1156       |      2603         .        2343       378       782        64      1701       842         .

 Bangladesh                  225      1036       287       |       987         .          38       252       274       539         .       982      1177

 Nepal                       218       139        77       |       866         .           .         .        77       686       135        45         .

 Italy                       574       689       660       |       776         .         254       343       279       572       190       208       255

 Egypt                       117       683       669       |       731         .         394       316       236       494       504        77         .

 Turkey                     1680      1235       726       |       637         .         802       164       179       560       236       378       102

 Mexico                      451       519       315       |       280         .         304       149       184        14       122       157        48

 Jordan                       17         1       409       |       202         .         211         .       409         .       202         .       211

 Hong Kong                    42       301       777       |       174         .          40        43       788       144        10        27        34

 Morocco                     136       102       167       |       140         .         148       114       106        76        56        68        73

 _ASEAN                     7500      4746      8519       |     17277         .        3643      4970      3842      4754      8773      6216      1350

 _CBI                        167       248       312       |        86         .          13         .       314        42        27        20       286

 _CAFTA                      167       248       312       |        85         .           .         .       314        42        26        20       286

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              303        32        38       |        40         .          77        62         .        44        40         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                  46         0        69       |         .         .          76         .        70         .         .         .         .