CITA Updates its Preliminary Textile and Apparel Import Data for China, Etc

May 20, 2005 |Top News

The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has posted to its web site updated preliminary textile and apparel import data for 2005, which now covers the 2005 period from February to May 7th.

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The updated posting reflects the addition of preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data for the two-week period of April 24, 2005 - May 7, 2005.

As a result, its three biweekly reports, titled U.S. imports by category, China, and World, have been updated for the new biweekly data. The biweekly reports contain data for single categories only.

Highlights of Preliminary Statistics for Pending China Safeguard Petitions, Etc.

The below table pertains to imports of China textiles and apparel, and lists selected data for the categories that CITA has stated will soon become subject to safeguard quotas (338/339, 347/348, and 352/652, which are self-initiated proceedings, as well as 301, 340/640, 638/639 and 647/648, which are "threat of" market disruption proceedings).

The below table also covers the categories for which CITA has instituted either "threat of" or actual market disruption proceedings, but has not yet announced whether safeguard quotas will be imposed (currently 222, 345/645/646, 349/649, 350/650, 447, and 620).

A comparison of preliminary data in this new biweekly report for April 24 - May 7, 2005 with the biweekly preliminary data for April 10 - April 23, 2005 indicates that imports rose for categories 301, 338, 340, 347, 350, 352, 620, 638, 639, 640, 645, 646, 648, 650, 652 while imports fell for categories 222, 339, 345, 348, 349, 447, 647, 649:

('O' denotes official data from Census, for which March 2005 data is most current. 'P' denotes preliminary import data from CBP. Data is in dozen, except for categories 222 and 301 which are in kilograms and 620 which is in square meters.)

China Cat	Total 2004 (O)	Jan 2005 (O)	Feb 2005 (O)	Mar 2005 (O)	4/10-4/23/05 (P)	4/24-5/07/05 (P)
222	10,619,673	636,573	975,206	863,162	718,238	686,221
301	2,015,700	62,210	334,515	215,494	101,560	197,724
338	1,398,664	439,573	1,261,728	834,169	466,169	579,063
339	1,417,417	805,756	2,235,393	1,560,780	934,663	850,057
340	955,332	248,644	487,504	318,711	127,558	152,116
345	144,221	46,734	65,476	46,208	32,925	29,432
347	948,753	667,607	1,178,778	741,929	432,690	452,914
348	1,235,303	922,705	1,915,986	1,367,370	870,421	826,970
349	2,918,665	310,432	488,411	368,038	163,724	148,155
350	2,861,479	374,338	373,986	183,319	95,677	121,580
352	1,916,306	371,380	1,250,601	704,206	520,403	723,275
447	66,550	11,139	34,309	10,501	7,137	5,291
620	5,895,247	2,834,779	4,253,026	5,297,606	4,480,763	4,617,548
638	477,663	71,301	255,254	185,267	133,213	173,806
639	2,447,259	764,581	852,638	622,139	429,841	514,534
640	1,516,071	196,944	372,630	297,461	194,109	234,339
645	96,209	1,700	6,344	5,617	886	2,206
646	832,703	74,800	73,023	84,480	32,500	39,085
647	1,645,595	404,803	777,615	436,081	310,978	293,508
648	1,205,917	158,011	340,059	211,543	117,266	151,317
649	14,816,289	1,664,951	1,686,800	1,173,381	625,740	541,306
650	1,693,221	95,729	97,807	80,074	25,496	47,193
652	3,295,867	692,361	1,060,903	1,177,131	512,056	841,737

(See CITA reports for details on the product coverage, including certain exceptions.)

Preliminary China and other import data for April 24, 2005 - May 7, 2005 available at http://otexa.ita.doc.gov/prelimadmin/prelimdata.htm