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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 448:  W/G WOOL SLACKS/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                     84809     72667     87793       |     62537         .       46129     42034     39549     36761     27027     27387     19039

 China                     27906     14879     31332       |     15706         .       24137     14210     16162     10906      9646      4479      3904

 Philippines               15880     14498     13239       |     12946         .        6596      5130      3417     10916      4285      7023      4406

 Thailand                   2914      4216     10651       |      9342         .        1057      2367      8170      2906      5701      2120      4975

 India                      1800      7232     11615       |      7813         .        1520      5852      3292      4084      2346      4259         .

 Kenya                      5034      1349         0       |      5630         .           .         .         .         .         .      5630      3053

 Vietnam                    7008      1484      6958       |      2779         .        3646      5570      1986      2121      1706       473       113

 Italy                      1562      1819      1073       |      1190         .         709       471       645       525       472       527       485

 Morocco                    3675      7171      1054       |      1048         .        1739       755      1032       214      1028        19         .

 Jordan                     4824      2481      3217       |       790         .         812      1966      1531       424        40       711       780

 Egypt                      1791       615         0       |       707         .          18         .         .         .         .       707         .

 Indonesia                  1841      6977       243       |       595         .        1056       997         .       875       444       151         .

 Romania                     287       747       599       |       530         .         296       197       309       667        84        88        56

 Cambodia                   1097         0      1987       |       492         .           .      1958         .       504         .       173         .

 Sri Lanka                   597       794       615       |       465         .        1198       184       401       478       159         .       106

 Mexico                      510       385       241       |       457         .         221       128       172       126       237       202       192

 _ASEAN                    28740     27175     33080       |     26155         .       12357     16024     13575     17323     12136      9940      9495

 _SUB-SAHARA                5035      1349         1       |      5630         .           .         .         .         .         .      5630      3053

 _CBI                       2648      1571       757       |       514         .         221      1008       454        77       282       232       107

 _CAFTA                     2648      1571       757       |       512         .         221      1008       454        77       282       230       107

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              183       220       683       |        85         .          87        10       150       555        57        18       153