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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)
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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