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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 604: YARN > 85% SYNTHETIC 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 2564866 2329942 2278268 | 2577031 . 1144503 1159833 1028574 867051 1115390 1081047 782767
Indonesia 1122320 691501 1185558 | 1436567 . 817838 620324 580068 587410 551646 571252 438691
India 232983 375361 167015 | 288379 . 82140 87820 124252 84018 65277 176176 135604
China 194975 365233 303769 | 234413 . 19350 178435 162456 69747 120345 102678 82655
Turkey 116159 134607 149061 | 127045 . 56630 75391 70596 14007 82718 44327 39261
Romania 107722 75333 0 | 107013 . . . . . 43284 63729 21171
Mexico 98937 65499 36701 | 76449 . 19400 44946 16226 6595 39435 37014 14168
Thailand 26297 73841 42777 | 66179 . 2812 25886 24122 6652 39555 19972 37110
Pakistan 0 0 23043 | 53751 . 17373 34926 . 5580 53751 . .
Philippines 0 436 24381 | 49122 . 420 12245 12042 . 24565 24557 12526
Vietnam 6559 17033 19051 | 39916 . 18870 19777 . 19051 19958 19958 .
Korea, South 19500 1404 18628 | 32085 . 37436 18675 . 32 32085 . .
Taiwan 98309 41672 55865 | 19138 . 56663 37956 18027 18808 19063 75 .
Italy 288 261 11883 | 16933 . 2680 30 . 11853 . 16932 340
Germany 143461 174144 11285 | 11563 . 18 . 1059 11295 11552 . 40
Sri Lanka 0 0 14722 | 11418 . 1940 . 2463 12259 9478 1940 .
_ASEAN 1170455 817332 1287047 | 1591784 . 839940 678232 631512 628392 635724 635740 488327
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 0 5883 0 | 292 . . . . . . 292 .
_CBI 0 86 0 | . . 263 252 . . . . 15
_CAFTA 0 0 0 | . . 263 252 . . . . 15
_SUB-SAHARA 0 0 0 | . . . . . . . . .