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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             November 20, 2008
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                           Category 410:  WOOL WOVEN FABRIC
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                   1595326   1434410   1106224       |   1181411         .      536023    521707    424846    520409    541238    488268    491048

 Mexico                   363008    370559    360705       |    427548         .      153988    129406    134782    173783    230608    191433    107097

 China                    288432    317945    198234       |    266019         .      184490    172146    107419    128223     98273     97299    117849

 Italy                    328732    295979    197919       |    257683         .       68042     96509     61515    112439    127940    103135    147962

 Chile                     87338     77454     18236       |     43003         .        1500     10894      8789     31654     12093      6493     35066

 Korea, South              11995     31242     38602       |     40337         .       35633     11299     26876      8507     32408      5518      7847

 United Kingdom            36842     38084     22618       |     34859         .       25552     11265      9462     11158     15930     14894     33625

 Germany                   25935     16737      3413       |     27404         .        4482       326      2128      1785      3392     23888     12069

 India                     54263     22412     33366       |     17420         .       24756     38239     18708     10565      3365      5567      3048

 South Africa                 19       604     25379       |     16127         .          10     13435      1302     12969      4883     11059      1873

 Uruguay                   46342     11703      6581       |     14982         .       21793      1423      1579      3524        48     14909      4741

 Japan                      1364      8467      2126       |     11748         .        1406      1808       198      7778      2324      2724      1773

 Turkey                    27202     26808      3640       |      8363         .        5933      1763      1594      1267      3412      4951      6844

 France                    58995      2263       877       |      3531         .         497       175       241      1994      1042      1180       851

 Spain                       825      1162       383       |      2281         .         251      1136       254       356       687      1474       241

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |      2005         .         650      7889     11693      8863       907      1041       291

 _SUB-SAHARA                  19       604     25379       |     16127         .          10     13435      1302     12969      4883     11059      1873

 _ASEAN                       31      2519       693       |      1321         .         416         .       403      1488         .       130         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            13085      6671     25737       |       489         .        3364     20063      4660      1139       275       214       127

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |        22         .         283       145        48       137         .        18        94

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |        22         .         275       145        48       137         .        18        94