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

October 14, 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 early July 2005 through mid-September 2005.

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The updated postings reflect the addition of preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data for two biweekly periods.

As a result, its three biweekly reports, titled U.S. imports by category, China, and World, have been updated to include preliminary data for August 14, 2005 - August 27, 2005, and August 28, 2005 - September 10, 2005.

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Three other reports, titled U.S. imports by category, U.S. imports by country, and U.S. imports by merged category, are alsoavailable.

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, 226, 341, 342, 345, 350, 351, 443, 447, 619, 634, 635, 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, 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, are reflected in the below table.

('CN' denotes China. 'O' denotes official data from Census. '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, categories 226, 619, and 620 which are in square meters, and 443 which is in numbers.)

CN CatMay 2005 (O)June 2005 (O)July 2005 (O)Aug 2005 (P)8/14-8/27/05 (P)8/28-9/10/05 (P)
2221395923141755214801801747293739675790052
22618710502112407410270032604071561133714280
3014982602499031601751422469842358855
332*9278083072614417540214330125264
33814637452501845489030780541391232301
339242452532825295730072551678501331
3404050628445746671577558884743730
341429717657361511669389741153014133172
342539247731996445459314613133723108938
34596510397331535965437198166789118199
34711123061870575280162115151826939
348207340632405915355642921734833974
349395909397903208375369751128741108559
350293985317975281771266867107585121945
351465040727029960064960154394297531230
3521758426330069674931792682218218408
432*1790766100868634
443104501914091182541748439498554294
44789001275613583239821295612352
619692231158732766349432598546225404182615887
6209724434927275881747891088984151229681985728
634171634464169732815778148344965360391
63523733268595711427981119711419260491470
6383454874180343786073495946685582
6391195026180442911824643913057324724
64034149951275459176076862238155521
641362531530859658832565940263769238393
642178374270144344955305821108631132495
6452476380909826661270765199039578
64619279663055910096261431622575820488794
64755959473803281910949092119164466
648396100879903808109498665977841
6491306356182171013766281400768534114724001
65085388142212254319397399184344195805
651202163353162570190668518293753358334
652167271626476054350872704993886364

* 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 August 2005 data from Census was released by CITA on October 13, 2005, with CITA's website updated soon thereafter.)

(See ITT's Online Archives or 09/12/05 news, 05091220, for BP summary of CITA biweekly data for earlier time periods. See ITT's Online Archives or 10/03/05 news, 05100320, for BP summary of CITA official monthly data for July 2005.)

China and other country import data reflecting various official and preliminary data, available at http://otexa.ita.doc.gov/prelimadmin/prelimdata.htm