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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 611:  WOVEN FABRIC >85% ARTIF STPLE
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                    497883    629052    362313       |    455066         .      170632     88240    148593    110698     93138    342875    120286

 China                    227824    278053     66279       |    197115         .       63241     40329     21587     18029     23439    171738     11083

 Korea, South              41689     56649    103656       |     85600         .       19512        56     80047     25211     31910     47661     20943

 Thailand                   5355       370      1943       |     85207         .          91      1880       144       309        29     85160       229

 Japan                     35579     52008     56251       |     37207         .       15900     10101     17464     45881     11736     17874     51686

 Indonesia                 74654     11358     43166       |     22733         .       35424     28304     16158      2487     10852      9394        79

 Taiwan                    54752    139949       217       |      9348         .          70       205        70       263      9137       211      2636

 Italy                     18266     24274     14909       |      7643         .       17329      2536      8183     12755      2581      4613      5192

 France                     4248      5590      2275       |      3179         .         561       913      1470       598      1514      1521      1562

 India                        13      3451      2136       |      2952         .         137       301         .      2218        83      2869     25104

 Turkey                    14654      3039      1326       |      1407         .         309      1331       607       226       418       763       208

 United Kingdom             1502       982      1114       |      1039         .         482       762       575       551       471       489       374

 Czech Republic              707      1920       288       |       480         .           .       948       288       192       480         .         .

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |       408         .         114       445       788       874       161       233        87

 Spain                        14      1037      1196       |       312         .           .         .       900       304        35       271         .

 Ireland                       0         0         0       |       160         .           .         .         .         .       160         .         .

 _ASEAN                    80009     11728     45109       |    107950         .       35515     30184     16302      2796     10891     94554       308

 _CBI                        112         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .       503         .         .       140

 _CAFTA                      112         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .       503         .         .       140

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0        63         0       |         .         .           .        57         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                  38         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .        50         .         .         .