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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 341:  W/G COT. SHIRTS/BLOUSES,N-KNIT
                                                      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                   1321017   1593616   1304434       |   1260534         .      648590    573037    624858    569408    565605    556602    646850

 China                    622815    774858    643576       |    620880         .      354907    266839    326011    272749    270226    284201    372150

 India                    188674    234404    160175       |    149447         .       71957     65045     65742     95725     71590     59433     54879

 Indonesia                131451    127985    179414       |    142717         .       60603     81849     86170     61898     72946     54998     52033

 Bangladesh                73292    113078     80348       |     83651         .       35002     49748     27015     29004     31835     41071     26981

 Vietnam                   58741     89484     55197       |     80446         .       34455     24596     27732     32715     35537     37197     47728

 Thailand                  52661     45014     39364       |     35701         .       18817     16403     19269     10938     12782     20281     18026

 Cambodia                  32537     24001     33661       |     25059         .       18012     12520     17514     17536      9569      9570      8109

 Sri Lanka                 23481     30144     11310       |     16881         .        5825      3071      8243      3809      9161      6638     17180

 Pakistan                  22337     22713     17168       |     16636         .        3480      9553      4996      6307     10200      6359      9934

 Honduras                  15801     12848      9467       |     12691         .        6606      5479      5185      4362      5747      5230      4551

 Philippines               15188     32079      8311       |     10820         .        6992      4866      3312      5036      3669      6060      7419

 Mexico                    13490     15501     10707       |     10736         .        3915      4916      3271      6965      3806      5550      4139

 Malaysia                   2824      7304      9264       |      9418         .        4161      5513      4989      5578      2958      3895      2970

 Nicaragua                  4957      9662      5181       |      5121         .        2245        85      3713      2184      3201      1794      1864

 Madagascar                   50      2374         1       |      4619         .         161        35         .        53      2250      2369      3552

 _ASEAN                   293402    327008    325215       |    307729         .      143062    145751    158987    133706    141028    132001    136287

 _CBI                      34166     28496     22191       |     22711         .       14144      9748     12545      8514     10687      9284      9576

 _CAFTA                    32453     28366     21001       |     22691         .       13880      8358     12544      8504     10686      9273      9576

 _SUB-SAHARA                8151      5506      7649       |      9836         .        2090      7684      2997      1228      7062      2773      6939

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             6141      4705      1887       |      2651         .        1723       741       553       976      1675      1002      2195