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CITA Updates its Preliminary Textile and Apparel Import Data for China, Etc. (Preliminary July Data Added, Etc.)

August 9, 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 late April 2005 through July 16, 2005.

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The updated postings reflect the addition of preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data for the month of July 2005, as well as preliminary CBP data for the two-week periods of June 19 - July 2, 2005 and July 3 - July 16, 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) July 2005 data, and preliminary Year-to-Date (YTD) July 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 most of the categories for which CITA has instituted either "threat of" market disruption proceeding, actual market disruption proceedings, or reapplication of a safeguard quota but has not yet announced whether these safeguard quotas will be imposed (currently 222, 332/432, 341/641, 342/642, 345/645/646, 349/649, 350/650, 351/651, 447, and 620).

Import data on cat 632pt (mmf socks), cat 359S/659S (cotton/mmf swimwear), cat 369pt/666pt (cotton/mmf curtains and draperies), are not reflected in CITA's preliminary data (as they are part categories) and are therefore excluded from the below table.

('CN' denotes China. 'O' denotes official data from Census, for which May 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, 620 which is in square meters, and 332 and 432 which are in dozen pair.)

CN CatApr 2005 (O)May 2005 (O)June 2005 (P)July 2005 (P)6/19-7/2/05 (P)7/3-7/16/05 (P)
2221161524139592313997001391794657054498130
3012454264982602581401358258946769752
33265669092780830214961653864811901
338822976146374526244214805031290234258570
3391705921242506433977604490671339790232949
340285503405062907717633078397289297390
341488546429717691464445038289891202489
342517196539247732776365939293121183734
3455290896510441241461068253833146649
34782057611123061881103178059798850108167
3481555177207340633183883454701299671220139
34935961139590942433018288514788297020
350215903293985297220249626136703113172
351463720465040758633878910407240360827
352963357175842635898385933771540039298985
43210661790739110490
447175208900165631762060177673
620859851597244348181859858813743500422994031
638257498345487460044379408251452258974
639860304119502619045381131823988143830246
640351231341499566706564778215889278140
641349107362531546021609764254944251619
642138914178374272430348905116157146354
64515172476382949854014244937087
646594281927966454001026831336580369118
647567586559594740889801493370757377369
648248943396100919562739720443343337378
6491171634130635618724671230384812490591679
65063086853881569062303326957559325
651173642202163394615538051183716274781
6521126827167271626853624070911284723142560

(See CITA reports for details on the product coverage, including certain exceptions. Also, note that official June 2005 data from Census will be released by CITA on August 12, 2005, with CITA's website updated soon thereafter.)

08/02/05 updated China and other import data reflecting official May 2005 data, and preliminary: June 19 2005 - July 2, 2005 and July 3, 2005 - July 16, 2005 biweekly data, month of June and July 2005 data, YTD July 2005, and YE June and July 2005 data, available at http://otexa.ita.doc.gov/prelimadmin/prelimdata.htm