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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 353:  M/B DOWN-FILLED COATS
                                                      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                      3561      1688      4609       |      2721         .        2195       575      3576      1337      2114       563       991

 China                      2436       873      4591       |      2583         .        2113       567      3567      1326      1979       562       808

 Bangladesh                  551       571         8       |        79         .           .         .         .         .        78         .       183

 Vietnam                     102       215         0       |        56         .           .         .         .         .        56         .         .

 Canada                      460         0         5       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Mexico                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Guatemala                     0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Chile                         0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Finland                       .         .         .       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 United Kingdom                4         0         1       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Belgium                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 France                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Germany                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Czech Republic                0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Hungary                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Switzerland                   0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                      102       215         0       |        56         .          43         .         .         .        56         .         .

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .