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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 432:  WOOL HOSIERY
                                                      Data in Dpr.

(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                     96359    107369    143518       |    157944         .       37719     51628     79807    113720     47718     46840     34983

 Korea, South              43337     53558     33180       |     66196         .        3634     24610     12564     61317      8193     12706     11177

 China                     17288     17489     65252       |     37650         .        7913     16710     42191     21341     14277     19816      1777

 Italy                      8781     13326     10181       |     15905         .       14125      2814      6230     11689      6935      2959      5141

 Mexico                     1219      2819      5506       |      7690         .        3029       309      2557      6407      2610      1514      1081

 United Kingdom             5407      2741      4012       |      7303         .        1181      2065      2405      1146      1036      5822       394

 Pakistan                   3321       167         0       |      5350         .         880       210         .         .      5334        16      2804

 Thailand                   2442       177      3062       |      4972         .        1471      1258      1179      1839      2084      1676      2014

 Indonesia                  1170         0         0       |      3071         .           .         .         .         .      1680      1391         .

 Bolivia                     998       103       124       |      2369         .          40        29         .        99      2367         .      3838

 South Africa                520       390      6237       |      2145         .        4081         .      1536      6590       256         .      2482

 Peru                       1537      4945      1474       |      1362         .         451       812       660      1318       521       228      1123

 Turkey                      417       267      3864       |      1332         .           .         .      3864        28      1303         .        83

 Portugal                    383      1500      1465       |       439         .          11      1299        36       568        28         .        20

 Germany                     607       300       545       |       436         .         301       160       583       301       384        39       566

 Taiwan                        0       120       228       |       296         .          15         .         .       245       192        87         .

 _ASEAN                     3612       177      3062       |      8045         .        1471      1258      1180      1841      3764      3067      2014

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             3550      5048      2103       |      3872         .         519      1194       829      1446      2990       250      6336

 _SUB-SAHARA                 520       390      6240       |      2145         .        4081         .      1536      6590       256         .      2482

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

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