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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 440:  WOOL SHIRTS/BLOUSES, NOT-KNIT
                                                      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                      4170      3542      2875       |      4208         .        2734       943      1763      1053      1485      2368       967

 China                       945      1774       737       |      1554         .        1885       255       383       439       347      1034       366

 Mexico                     1417       450      1012       |      1289         .         393        28       859       167       338       919       137

 Israel                       57         0         9       |       419         .           .        91         .         .       418         .        55

 Colombia                      0        52        41       |       260         .           .         .        41        64       100        96       184

 Italy                        78       112       255       |       188         .         106        92       145        91        46       119        67

 Spain                         7         0        44       |        81         .          12        12        53        24        55        27        11

 India                       448         7       174       |        68         .          59        47        31        40        20        34        35

 El Salvador                  11         0       200       |        45         .           .       186        14         .        19        25        11

 France                       67        47        26       |        42         .          52        23        20        26        15        15         .

 Turkey                       60        34        60       |        34         .          57         .        54         .         .        27         .

 United Kingdom                4        11        13       |        30         .          11         .        10        13        15         .         .

 Switzerland                  11         1        14       |        24         .           .        10         .        12         .        12         .

 Vietnam                       7         0         1       |        23         .           .        13         .         .        17         .         .

 Portugal                     31         5        38       |        16         .           .         .         .        38        12         .        20

 Hong Kong                   114         9        38       |        15         .           .         .        38        28         .         .        14

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0        53        44       |       274         .           .        15        41        71       113        97       193

 _CBI                        126       128       219       |        57         .          10       187        15        20        27        29        13

 _CAFTA                      126       128       219       |        57         .          10       187        15        20        27        29        13

 _ASEAN                      284         0         5       |        42         .          30        36        13        10        29        10         .

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