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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 446:  W/G SWEATERS, 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                    818320    305323    636836       |    656752         .      180283    238473    274136    293549    345189    237331    140905

 China                    725954    263275    602258       |    606403         .      163323    220399    257148    271119    322263    216620    126270

 Hong Kong                 34536     17419      9625       |     25377         .        2346      4666      6668      7697     12141     11250      1272

 Bangladesh                11689      1032      1342       |      5193         .        4079      3162       340      1689      1912      2030      1866

 Taiwan                     1981       369      1461       |      4008         .         981       801       528      1429      2070       580        72

 Italy                      9256      2803      4188       |      2459         .        2695      2741      2211      1376       900      1251      1632

 Thailand                  18243     11658      4317       |      2425         .         191       192      2742      1853       965      1124      2799

 Peru                       2905      1149      1697       |      2002         .         573       747       740       891      1222       602       882

 Japan                        59       115        94       |      1199         .          64        89        57        69       524       665        72

 Bolivia                     503       216       441       |       998         .         343       163       168       122       338       638        93

 Ecuador                    2361      1447      2183       |       973         .         165      1395       334      1636       515       401       708

 Vietnam                      30         6        22       |       662         .          52       959        20         .         .       660         .

 Norway                      718       350       258       |       615         .         155       134        38       291       314       156        54

 United Kingdom             1780       637      1492       |       596         .         153      1042       292       595       195       148       283

 Romania                     228       121       241       |       595         .          56       360        75       163       415       146        68

 Croatia                     113        49       933       |       587         .           .         .       675       481       198       177       133

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             5776      2812      4321       |      3973         .        1081      2305      1242      2649      2075      1641      1683

 _ASEAN                    18787     12402      4607       |      3262         .         907      1268      2845      1956      1060      1840      3260

 _CBI                          0       229        21       |         .         .           .         .        21         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0       229        21       |         .         .           .         .        21         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                  52      1314      1789       |         .         .         184         .        54      1733         .         .      3249