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

                                           Category 334:  OTHER M/B 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                   1620771   1020738   1852686       |   1679327         .      740068    835905    859639    863830    722776    711647    463128

 China                    892599    554888   1144187       |    911896         .      457146    526963    574025    491924    394099    368739    258801

 Pakistan                 192232    120311    215316       |    236288         .      105500    101309     67258    120651    100319     94828     64568

 Bangladesh               165008     79656    148067       |    204465         .       42466     61837     55408     95540     88991     92676     22422

 Vietnam                   64372     66372     72249       |     73104         .       14609     21518     39716     34530     25006     44821     24816

 India                     65403     31577     37810       |     47525         .        9812     13737     20893     12719     20653     23470     11487

 Mexico                    37328     28835     56923       |     40773         .       21949     18865     29687     23202     18454     17747     19111

 Indonesia                 59535     31543     51269       |     37730         .       19792     35271     14435     24298     23229      8942      5857

 Cambodia                  43971     27322     20486       |     36212         .       11563      7723      9792     13202     13213     18892     12905

 Thailand                  10728      5734     32158       |     16325         .        7485     10199     16935     15689      9107      5756      3666

 Malaysia                   5067      8584     11129       |     12465         .        4088      2997      6189      5547      6865      4558       566

 Philippines               11755      4299     11544       |     11850         .        9338      7590      3785      4850      5728      5184      6407

 Jordan                     2225      1336      2028       |      7488         .         455       292      2093      4443      2077      3225       937

 Egypt                      6823      1501      1405       |      5178         .        5612        20      1405      2031      1985      1162      1387

 Sri Lanka                 11245      9219      2990       |      5129         .        4659      4558       679       311       595      4402      8396

 Honduras                   8135      9300      7964       |      5122         .        5267      6517      3026      1708      1767      2576      1662

 _ASEAN                   197577    144088    199691       |    189569         .       66876     85337     90859     99664     83677     88769     54217

 _CBI                      24432     24439     15986       |      9832         .       11506     11157      6636      4027      4448      4406      1830

 _CAFTA                    23318     23457     15931       |      9359         .       11505     11157      6636      3933      4222      4198      1830

 _SUB-SAHARA                7130      1905      8242       |      3164         .        7964      3901      3055      2366       837      2008     15340

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             1262      2076      3359       |       395         .         320      3264        82       550        86        98         .