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

September 7, 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 approximately mid-May 2005 through mid-August 2005.

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The updated postings reflect the addition of preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data for the two-week periods of July 17, 2005 - July 30, 2005, and July 31, 2005 - August 13, 2005.

As a result, its three biweekly reports, titled U.S. imports by category, China, and World, which also reflect official Census data for June 2005 and preliminary data for the full month of July 2005, have been updated to include the new preliminary biweekly data.

Three other reports, titled U.S. imports by category, U.S. imports by country, and U.S. imports by merged category, are alsoavailable, and reflect official Census data for June 2005, as well as preliminary Year-Ending (YE) July 2005 data and preliminary Year-to-Date (YTD) July 2005 data.

The below table contains data from China's biweekly report of single category imports of China textiles and apparel, for categories that are subject to safeguard quotas (301, 332, 338, 339, 340, 347, 348, 349, 352, 432, 620, 632pt., 638, 639, 640, 647, 648, 649, and 652), as well as categories that CITA has instituted either "threat of" and/or actual market disruption proceedings for, but has not yet announced whether safeguard quotas will be imposed (currently 222, 341, 342, 345, 350, 351, 447, 641, 642, 645, 646, and 650).

As data from the China biweekly report is only available for "whole" categories, neither Census or CBP data on cat 632pt (in cat 332/432/632pt), cat 369pt or 666pt, and 359S or 659S, the subject of recent petitions, are not reflected in the below table.

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

CN CatApr 2005 (O)May 2005 (O)June 2005 (O)July 2005 (P)7/17-7/30/05 (P)7/31-8/13/05 (P)
2221161524139592314175521374294799809723652
3012454264982602499031358255042417083
332*65669092780830726161653482777109
3388229761463745250184546637111910636131
3391705921242452532825294391535152019229
34028550340506284457463268530961666931
341488546429717657361443704218801185955
342517196539247731996357439153359147472
3455290896510397331456166278791225525
34782057611123061870575177316360749213
3481555177207340632405913384125577525193
34935961139590939790318277384023205413
350215903293985317975248562131709138486
351463720465040727029852514466358415750
3529633571758426330069658929118957970427
432*1066179076610000
447175208900127561760098837856
620859851597244349272758857874950751225335561
6382574983454874180343741469213830175
63986030411950261804429112259415149631528
64035123134149951275456476827875552920
641349107362531530859608805319900240572
642142747178374270144347519182777161469
64515172476380909850434701952308
64659428192796630559995790569980640236
64756758655959473803279686238721836187
64824894339610087990373567034324143998
6491171634130635618217101229300597361657088
6506308685388142212228490162925165191
651173642202163353162537685254768261792
65211268271672716264760540182115697917630

* As China safeguard 332/432/632pt closed on May 12, 2005 for QP: 10/29/04 - 10/28/05, imports after the close date may be warehouse entries.

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

China and other country import data reflecting official: June 2005 single month, June 2005 YTD and May and June YE data, etc., and preliminary: July 17, 2005 - July 30, 2005 and July 31, 2005 - August 13, 2005 biweekly data, July 2005 single month and July YTD and YE data, available at http://otexa.ita.doc.gov/prelimadmin/prelimdata.htm