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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 347:  M/B COT. TROUSERS/BREECHES/SHORTS
                                                      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                   5705051   5354508   5520430       |   5766196         .     2827843   2391647   2593564   2707722   2603041   2445285   2476570

 Mexico                  1348589   1195994   1163432       |   1209159         .      570990    510096    546991    503972    519273    566826    558214

 Bangladesh               831318    786313   1102654       |   1120654         .      606628    446385    509474    641423    484089    487635    508513

 China                    241112    200288    561521       |    596048         .      251553    257303    243053    270775    250124    281968    281332

 Pakistan                 332591    311740    312825       |    333260         .      161181    155055    117256    157079    159128    131028    113906

 Cambodia                 231746    232186    271483       |    291753         .      171812     99481    138617    127945    148920    100801     97000

 Vietnam                  218308    314155    238396       |    260370         .      135204    115901    120007    130205    103966    128531     95388

 Egypt                    158433    197227    222395       |    216368         .      114530     87441    142400     75491     92024     86579    102283

 Honduras                 190868    156054    155198       |    170211         .       97043     77134     70257     80962     76344     67712     95824

 Nicaragua                210167    216561    166080       |    154437         .       53101     54134     81147     74151     80094     54158     63956

 Dominican Republic       207157    199391    112957       |    145546         .       50459     44407     65243     52802     63562     61613     51109

 India                    172064    167542    104531       |    139860         .       44605     53704     37954     49637     66259     58053     60180

 Indonesia                230319    188298    146311       |    122786         .       83685     72997     55245     76614     65685     40177     47380

 Sri Lanka                132057     84508    122801       |    121855         .       51357     45335     79415     41599     67418     39284     44213

 Lesotho                  116221    120283    135943       |    110908         .       79091     54545     59594     55760     62342     39200     75942

 Colombia                 104891     71601     74919       |     84027         .       25974     28439     32866     48981     32929     29214     25745

 _ASEAN                   834016    885435    797441       |    839367         .      451160    343058    387449    407114    383575    359983    311237

 _CBI                     900406    801266    585338       |    603230         .      286348    243738    297384    268257    299835    219842    259628

 _CAFTA                   865625    767368    553796       |    570937         .      264476    226810    281269    252073    277070    216806    254120

 _SUB-SAHARA              269156    229543    208863       |    220032         .      139458    108425     82351     92293    110960     80395    125512

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)           111229     79675     80829       |     85433         .       26676     34074     33775     50513     33499     29614     27671