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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 349:  BRASSIERES, OTHER BODY SUPPORT GAR
                                                      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                    549197    667465    666094       |    583401         .      374595    290214    302025    329446    254897    216492    156142

 China                    254805    306739    290058       |    203626         .      182603    105186    134087    128928     93137     68195     42437

 Bangladesh                57696    147158    162239       |    178480         .      125003     78531     59576    111211     66624     63649     29749

 Thailand                  63063     68046     42933       |     65559         .       15336     25413     26447     18424     35938     23347     13211

 Indonesia                 55930     47216     72120       |     40173         .       12893     36084     35029     38767     15527     12815     39386

 Sri Lanka                 26218     32971     35746       |     30530         .       11423     17957     20715     14253     15063     13986     12594

 Mexico                    11338      6802      9823       |     18275         .        3830      4277       641      3265      1196     16441       639

 Costa Rica                 1636      2141      6577       |      7903         .        1130      2005      3211      3842      3692      4211      3335

 Philippines                6995      8430      5702       |      7854         .        2934      3701      1995         .      4004      3850      1945

 Honduras                  27215     16597      8239       |      6922         .        4489      4922      4245      2650      3383      3207      4266

 Vietnam                   11567      6198       352       |      6212         .        4876         .        92       387      6014        71       701

 Malaysia                   8388     10695     15259       |      4208         .        4843      7846      7053       960      2334      1874      2545

 El Salvador                1046       682      1517       |      3623         .           .        40       837       810      1717      1884      1303

 Egypt                         0         0      2241       |      1825         .         905       274      1537       704       827       998       739

 Turkey                    10113      3591      4172       |      1357         .        1708       129      2838      1461      1140       216       281

 Cambodia                   1048      1264      1928       |      1007         .           .      1876        54      1060       863        19       738

 _ASEAN                   149055    141849    138294       |    125014         .       40882     74920     70670     59605     64681     41976     58526

 _CBI                      35255     22848     18833       |     20196         .        6587      7722      9098      8655      9858      9807     10105

 _CAFTA                    34305     21454     18253       |     19618         .        6458      7716      8941      8183      9430      9706      9364

 _SUB-SAHARA                1477         1       457       |       618         .         582         .       457         .         .       618         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              151      1098       952       |       396         .          33        96       843       137        21       389        83