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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 447:  M/B WOOL TROUSERS/BREECHES/SHORTS
                                                      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                    123767    114680    104719       |     87857         .       54960     50274     47969     44776     37451     41487     39397

 China                     13377      8761     17176       |     14771         .       11231      8107      8493      7234      4535      7972      6265

 Mexico                    18929     15483     13700       |     13412         .        6017      5879      9850      5307      5902      5906      4995

 Vietnam                    8115      5429      7081       |     11479         .        7435      2119      6275      3416      3757      5575      5245

 India                     13050     15582      9684       |     11057         .        5751      6657      2249      6292      7583      2549      5225

 Indonesia                 15221      3156      7791       |      6702         .        5763      4929      1160      5593      2327      4176      1185

 Egypt                      1931      3865      6170       |      6119         .        2090      3242      3170      2397      2161      3405      2705

 Colombia                   5375      8487      5676       |      5434         .        1832      1402      2981      1781      2541      2782      3684

 Jordan                     6154      3247      4211       |      3901         .        2669      1057      2968      1708      1593      2892      1741

 Italy                     12645     13274      5039       |      3528         .        2819      4516      1933      2928      2085      1101      3909

 Bangladesh                  671      8704      8178       |      2186         .        3858      4745      3433      1497       936      1250         .

 Dominican Republic         4273      3924      1863       |      2062         .           .      2594       116      1796       557       683       614

 Turkey                     3734      4701      2075       |      1092         .         624       551      1164       816       513       546       371

 Thailand                   1697      2382      1713       |      1068         .         183       417       598      1021       793       141       727

 Honduras                    899       682       772       |       858         .         378       376       476       230       378       306       412

 Israel                        0         1         0       |       585         .           .         .         .         .       585         .       275

 _ASEAN                    25876     11618     18559       |     19546         .       14426      8696      8766     10919      6929     10133      7920

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             5375      8492      5756       |      5435         .        1832      1402      2981      1884      2541      2782      3685

 _CBI                       5675      5396      2766       |      2983         .        1581      3016       613      2154       942      1045      1029

 _CAFTA                     5675      5396      2645       |      2924         .        1562      2981       601      2031       939       989      1029

 _SUB-SAHARA                   4         0         1       |         .         .          18         .         .         .         .         .         .