CITA Updates its Preliminary Textile and Apparel Import Data for China, Etc
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 approximately March 2005 to June 4, 2005.
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The updated postings reflect preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data for the month of May 2005, and preliminary CBP data for the two-week period of May 22, 2005 - June 4, 2005.
As a result, its three biweekly reports, titled U.S. imports by category, China, and World, have been updated to reflect the addition of preliminary monthly and preliminary biweekly data.
In addition, three additional reports, titled U.S. imports by category, U.S. imports by country, and U.S. imports by merged category, have been updated to reflect the addition of preliminary Year-Ending (YE) May 2005 data, and preliminary Year-to-Date (YTD) May 2005 data.
The below table pertains to imports of China textiles and apparel, and lists selected data for the categories that have recently become subject to safeguard quotas (301, 338/339, 340/640, 347/348, 352/652, 638/639, and 647/648).
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).1
('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 | Feb 2005 (O) | Mar 2005 (O) | Apr 2005 (P) | May 2005 (P) | 5/08-5/21/05 (P) | 5/22-6/04/05 (P) |
| 222 | 975,206 | 863,162 | 1,284,361 | 1,407,001 | 637,315 | 702,869 |
| 301 | 334,515 | 215,494 | 263,719 | 494,702 | 328,200 | 91,518 |
| 338 | 1,261,728 | 834,169 | 854,531 | 1,599,330 | 678,395 | 878,879 |
| 339 | 2,235,393 | 1,560,780 | 1,790,852 | 2,481,459 | 1,106,682 | 1,522,131 |
| 340 | 487,504 | 318,711 | 290,364 | 441,488 | 173,849 | 286,867 |
| 345 | 65,476 | 46,208 | 58,865 | 138,505 | 50,369 | 111,662 |
| 347 | 1,178,778 | 741,929 | 823,917 | 1,196,874 | 559,102 | 636,331 |
| 348 | 1,915,986 | 1,367,370 | 1,655,525 | 2,133,234 | 991,649 | 1,159,649 |
| 349 | 488,411 | 368,038 | 367,727 | 388,919 | 226,021 | 220,959 |
| 350 | 373,986 | 183,319 | 205,897 | 311,954 | 118,837 | 172,212 |
| 352 | 1,250,601 | 704,206 | 1,167,261 | 1,732,749 | 915,892 | 859,622 |
| 447 | 34,309 | 10,501 | 17,488 | 8,734 | 4,834 | 3745 |
| 620 | 4,253,026 | 5,297,606 | 8,759,897 | 11,184,463 | 5,690,558 | 3,990,343 |
| 638 | 255,254 | 185,267 | 275,626 | 347,858 | 152,926 | 152,868 |
| 639 | 852,638 | 622,139 | 855,775 | 1,281,387 | 587,411 | 644,185 |
| 640 | 372,630 | 297,461 | 355,179 | 375,076 | 133,534 | 159,600 |
| 645 | 6,344 | 5,617 | 1,448 | 27,407 | 15,431 | 14,381 |
| 646 | 73,023 | 84,480 | 72,323 | 221,616 | 115,401 | 161,543 |
| 647 | 777,615 | 436,081 | 576,090 | 615,956 | 275,920 | 257,208 |
| 648 | 340,059 | 211,543 | 258,216 | 406,787 | 183,220 | 221,339 |
| 649 | 1,686,800 | 1,173,381 | 1,212,800 | 1,369,999 | 652,157 | 707,708 |
| 650 | 97,807 | 80,074 | 60,763 | 99,121 | 41,064 | 44,580 |
| 652 | 1,060,903 | 1,177,131 | 1,170,317 | 1,757,014 | 791,496 | 828,700 |
(See CITA reports for details on the product coverage, including certain exceptions. Also, note that official April 2005 data from Census will be released by CITA on June 10, 2005, with CITA's website updated soon thereafter. Also note that the single month data for April and May 2005 is dated June 2, 2005, while the biweekly data is dated June 8, 2005.)
1 Statistics on cotton/mmf curtains and draperies (cat 369pt/666pt), the subject of a recent petition, are not reflected in the above table. (See ITT's Online Archives or 06/06/05 news, 05060605 for BP summary.)
Preliminary China and other import data reflecting May 22, 2005 - June 4, 2005 biweekly data, month of May 2005, YTD May 2005, and YE May 2005 data, available at http://otexa.ita.doc.gov/prelimadmin/prelimdata.htm