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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)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 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       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .