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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 433:  M/B SUIT-TYPE COATS, WOOL
                                                      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                     60783     48180     68258       |     59330         .       33400     34559     29083     26853     29302     23622     21180

 China                     21555     13208     27405       |     21443         .       14865     17503     11828     11222      8180     10483      4422

 Mexico                     9857      7783      9455       |      8560         .        4969      2696      4522      3709      3822      4075      3852

 Indonesia                  3040      1100      3199       |      7452         .        1749      1703      1072      1907      6196       439      1807

 Vietnam                    1915      3244      4101       |      5036         .        3058      3126      2877      1494      2483      1968      2993

 India                      5011      3535      5157       |      3901         .        3072      3175      1636      1649      2138      1511      1536

 Colombia                   3253      4897      3927       |      2139         .        1445      1291      1751      1850      1197       942      1995

 Cambodia                   1113         0      1912       |      1760         .           .       345      1437       132       957       803       309

 Italy                      2821      2197      1990       |      1449         .        1198       406       879      1175       680       550       662

 Philippines                1060       809      1602       |      1436         .           .       967       481       604       576       444       583

 Bangladesh                  238       609       296       |      1317         .         331       253        43       892       937       380       149

 Egypt                       366       860       522       |       999         .         267       223       196       610       132       385        91

 Turkey                     1228       924      1060       |       897         .         454       308       678       349       342       531       259

 Jordan                     1031      1006       720       |       864         .         675       536       359       584       487       377      1039

 Costa Rica                  440      1396       293       |       382         .         260       173       122        22       248       112       600

 Korea, South                421        24       893       |       351         .           .       792       102         .       217       134        43

 _ASEAN                     7536      5168     10869       |     15719         .        4958      6159      5908      4161     10227      3670      5819

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             3297      4900      3960       |      2168         .        1455      1292      1773      1864      1197       969      2003

 _CBI                       1560      2210       779       |       396         .         260       407       308       129       253       121       606

 _CAFTA                     1560      2210       597       |       395         .         260       403       126       127       252       121       605

 _SUB-SAHARA                   3         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .