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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             November 20, 2008
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                           Category 352:  COTTON UNDERWEAR
                                                      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                  18650788  17487345  20942358       |  23438113         .     8528542   9285368  10203825   9684342  10707742   9791905   9670187

 Honduras                3418855   3777349   3435086       |   4113361         .     1437745   1445360   1883840   1709668   1951070   1573524   2043832

 El Salvador             3389847   2948485   3384694       |   3550608         .      957889   1296394   1857046   1666330   1698945   1346293   1326827

 India                   1057406   1002551   1594310       |   2252090         .      825281    818485    708377    842647    865092   1135297    948052

 Bangladesh              1345791   1058355   2086523       |   2122693         .      955473    948512    848623    988162   1038756    765636    612016

 Thailand                1363075   1136440   1600697       |   1556667         .      438367    813060    770304    432874    717778    746009    663054

 China                    825803    628267   1158742       |   1368599         .      358769    468762    540229    654716    742015    348389    353860

 Dominican Republic       888512   1002215   1121337       |   1023397         .      422773    513679    479186    469709    384945    513579    521571

 Vietnam                   46232    150630    779063       |    938898         .      128658    375825    375014    234154    475602    419500    749275

 Sri Lanka                213647    458904    586140       |    901244         .      344986    210762    290435    358919    426033    451959    388106

 Haiti                    606978    422146    891186       |    863923         .      313624    323924    389587    403399    362882    395396    246260

 Cambodia                 724017    313976    678771       |    859661         .      302517    312458    320776    432280    466460    277437    260854

 Pakistan                 579594    429804    309786       |    692777         .      220038    166814    169806    144808    364868    298141    216575

 Macau                    379765    416072    566449       |    600748         .      348723    287313    210816    254824    185706    309782    178333

 Costa Rica              1335646   1184969    730530       |    499717         .      427250    364542    388475    194916    204355    251370    247567

 Indonesia                301689    298668    263088       |    361316         .      137318    107332    117269    143452    151635    145976     94876

 _CBI                    9903088   9541196   9927832       |  10404854         .     3745040   4086951   5174801   4577840   4788194   4214616   4554170

 _CAFTA                  9176527   9033594   8934815       |   9467571         .     3384420   3734444   4747875   4126780   4395037   3782188   4252080

 _ASEAN                  3093049   2747255   3800162       |   4364653         .     1402724   1877047   1866029   1475228   2055262   1898838   2053983

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            79459     77155    100508       |     65993         .       26260     45570     44492     29485     30360     32075     40117

 _SUB-SAHARA               31330       460      7023       |     33195         .         200      2278        11     11848      7372     18721     13782