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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 603: YARN > 85% ARTIFICIAL STAPLE FIBER
Data in Kg..
(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 1944462 1790000 1451043 | 1349870 . 677617 745735 691290 741188 470266 643938 499061
Indonesia 838138 520673 615147 | 469395 . 219693 255147 408521 260221 161993 210333 105732
Thailand 297994 253010 343921 | 304519 . 246452 228342 112211 201267 65991 171145 114401
China 387550 326950 216265 | 122824 . 38437 96688 88621 65002 45173 66479 58288
India 25957 109709 65247 | 122385 . 21773 40319 24627 45024 37077 62908 62964
Austria 57586 44709 0 | 97305 . . . . 29978 22380 44947 15259
Sri Lanka 19779 50719 2709 | 50112 . 4288 4457 1253 8153 29486 13929 2355
Vietnam 78835 136409 39554 | 39554 . . . 19777 39554 19777 19777 39554
Korea, South 47989 75355 704 | 33521 . 12753 . . 704 . 33521 .
Turkey 15352 45915 31914 | 31968 . . 31914 . 32085 16007 15961 .
Spain 40982 10249 782 | 22692 . 25469 . 782 . 22692 . 31774
Taiwan 1875 57259 42251 | 19871 . 37036 71138 764 22552 19310 561 2242
Australia 75415 91626 35600 | 17426 . 53420 . . 35600 17426 . 35099
Mexico 0 0 7924 | 8037 . . . 7924 . 4235 3802 9388
Switzerland 0 0 0 | 4690 . . . . . 4690 . .
Belgium / Luxembourg . . . | 3696 . 14193 . 8863 713 2983 . 2917
_ASEAN 1214967 910092 998622 | 813468 . 466145 483489 540509 501042 247761 401255 259687
_CBI 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .
_CAFTA 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .