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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 435:  W/G WOOL 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                    341317    114660    458773       |    303943         .      156548    191670    226149    189919    156653     93204     50508

 China                    164390     63920    286912       |    157461         .      116084    128423    141560     99103     78667     52621     29873

 Vietnam                   73070      6661     57821       |     51122         .       12012     21560     25270     36960     28872     10064      2067

 India                     24264      2526     16991       |     17903         .        1201      1806     15009      7690     10588      2736      1462

 Indonesia                  6818       837     25324       |     15805         .        1853      6837     12763     15803      8245      4476      2577

 Dominican Republic         8658      4755     12369       |     15301         .        3159      8378      6307      5599      5980      6759      3675

 Philippines               15289      5162     10890       |     10149         .        3619      3160      5746      7098      3909      3516      3061

 Guatemala                 10790      5408      8047       |      6382         .        3302      3165      1880      3686      3359      2385       285

 Thailand                   3850      3949      9441       |      6117         .        2033      5056      5465      1426      2178      3934      2223

 Bangladesh                 3912        16      4895       |      4170         .        2050      1921      1575      1961      3824       346         .

 Sri Lanka                  1437       114      1379       |      3400         .         845       195       966      1409      2275       854       629

 Italy                      4282      2039      4239       |      2271         .        2499      1518      2095      1720      1056       935       693

 Mexico                     2398      1521      1596       |      1555         .         886       296       893      1259       723       571       575

 Romania                    1950       476      1983       |      1214         .         392      1202       663       798      1152        45        93

 Jordan                      110       385       155       |      1103         .         419         .       155       250      1103         .         .

 Peru                       1855       549      1414       |      1005         .         266       738       561       680       625       250       228

 _ASEAN                    99637     16609    103532       |     83195         .       19553     37017     49245     61289     43204     21990      9933

 _CBI                      21006     10823     21010       |     22302         .        7202     11672      8577      9456      9535      9536      4391

 _CAFTA                    21006     10823     21009       |     22302         .        7202     11672      8577      9456      9535      9536      4391

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             2475       870      1732       |      1665         .         321      1010       656      1241       770       536       871

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         1        24       |         .         .           .        14        11         .         .         .         .