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

September 12, 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 August 2005.

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The updated postings reflect the addition of preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data for August 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 July 2005, have been updated to include preliminary data for August 2005.

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 and August 2005 data and preliminary Year-to-Date (YTD) August 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, 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, 650, and 651).

As data from the China biweekly report is only available for "whole" categories, neither Census nor CBP data on cat 632pt (in cat 332/432/632pt), cat 369pt or 666pt, and 359S or 659S, the subject of recent petitions, are 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 CatMay 2005 (O)June 2005 (O)July 2005 (P)Aug 2005 (P)7/17-7/30/05 (P)7/31-8/13/05 (P)
2221395923141755213742941759266799809723652
3014982602499031358251422465042417083
332*9278083072616165340214482777109
338146374525018454663717805911910636131
33924245253282529439153273415152019229
3404050628445746326857558830961666931
341429717657361443704390704218801185955
342539247731996357439316086153359147472
34596510397331456166442814278791225525
3471112306187057517731612092360749213
34820734063240591338412293485577525193
34939590939790318277336975184023205413
350293985317975248562267002131709138486
351465040727029852514960795466358415750
352175842633006965892919268218957970427
432*17907661008600
447890012756176002423998837856
6209724434927275885787491102150350751225335561
638345487418034374146349599213830175
6391195026180442911225943943615149631528
6403414995127545647687686527875552920
641362531530859608805566086319900240572
642178374270144347519305923182777161469
6452476380909850431270764701952308
6461927966305599957901442653569980640236
6475595947380327968625130638721836187
6483961008799037356704987634324143998
6491306356182171012293001402131597361657088
65085388142212228490398418162925165191
651202163353162537685671069254768261792
652167271626476054018212707215697917630

* 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.)

(See ITT's Online Archives or 09/07/05 news, 05090720 for BP summary of prior update on this CITA data.)

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