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July 8, 2005 |Top News

(Preliminary June Data Added)

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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 April 2005 through June 2005.

The updated postings reflect the addition of preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data for the month of June 2005, and preliminary CBP data for the two-week period of June 4, 2005 - June 18, 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 this 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) June 2005 data, and preliminary Year-to-Date (YTD) June 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).

Import data on cat 369pt/666pt (cotton/mmf curtains and draperies), the subject of a recent petition, are not reflected in the below table.

('CN' denotes China. 'O' denotes official data from Census, for which April 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.)

CN CatMar 2005 (O)Apr 2005 (O)May 2005 (P)June 2005 (P)5/22-6/4/05 (P)6/5-6/18/05 (P)
222863,1621,161,5241,368,6571,399,713608,607558,355
301215,494245,426494,702258,14078,364139,503
338834,169822,9761,584,6862,632,027822,8131,138,000
3391,560,7801,705,9212,421,7893,408,9271,471,9151,607,950
340318,711285,503440,847914,313284,543425,483
34546,20852,908129,582448,808100,247183,149
347741,929820,5761,186,1791,885,809620,239886,721
3481,367,3701,555,1772,085,4863,335,4191,121,2181,649,415
349368,038359,611384,424425,918195,518174,495
350183,319215,903310,559297,220168,731120,254
352704,206963,3571,681,9483,647,852778,5681,798,360
44710,50117,5208,06116,6813,0729,902
6205,297,6068,598,51510,906,0738,294,3973,735,8423,243,348
638185,267257,498341,463465,897147,217184,491
639622,139860,3041,258,2351,922,111612,273835,592
640297,461351,231372,337570,162158,077289,498
6455,6171,51727,40786,49214,30937,506
64684,48059,428221,534662,340159,624300,246
647436,081567,586612,217744,021252,530331,153
648211,543248,943398,631921,225212,409454,342
6491,173,3811,171,6341,344,7911,892,303679,801841,502
65080,07463,08697,690156,90842,90582,330
6521,177,1311,126,8271,731,2932,701,782806,9481,166,255

(See CITA reports for details on the product coverage, including certain exceptions. Also, note that official May 2005 data from Census will be released by CITA on July 13, 2005, with CITA's website updated soon thereafter.)

China and other import data reflecting official April 2005 data, and preliminary: June 5, 2005 - June 18, 2005 biweekly data, month of May and June 2005 data, YTD June 2005, and YE May and June 2005 data, available at http://otexa.ita.doc.gov/prelimadmin/prelimdata.htm