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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                              February 6, 2012
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |               By Category               |
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                                           Category 200:  YARN FOR RETAIL SALE,SEWING THREAD
                                                      Data in Kg..

(P)  These data are limited preliminary import data based on import figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
It will be supplanted by official imports from the Census Bureau as those data become available.  The release of these data 
is to allow preliminary analysis of the impact of total imports into the United States and imports from China into the 
United States to facilitate the administration of the textile safeguard in China's WTO Accession Agreement.

Because this report contains data for HTS Chapters 50-63 only, the following categories may be incomplete or not 
appear at all:  201, 229, 239, 359, 362, 369, 439, 459, 469, 621, 622, 659, 666, 669, 670, 859, 870, 871 and 899.


                        ----------- Official Data -------- |  --------------- Preliminary Data (unofficial) --------------------------------------------| 
                                                    Monthly Data                          Two Weeks-ending Data  (2011)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 Country                 12/2010    1/2011   11/2011       |  12/2011    1/2012       11/12     11/26     12/10     12/24      1/07      1/21      2/04
                                                                 (P)       (P)          (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)
 World                   1493189   1413137   1651537       |   1161909   1035483      493809    523038    545745    636505    278627    519067    580869

 Turkey                   370093    371561    466413       |    367864    354536      184081    230406    180324    194770     75341    227544    122957

 China                    332975    304245    362330       |    342460    309461      107998    173602    151997    193877     65694    160603    212034

 Mexico                   184848    212079    152733       |    140244    120992       68214     40445     80063     91878      5652     53113     69369

 India                     37663     32674     35493       |     75885     58874       16858     17907     40851     36679     21276     12793     25192

 Thailand                  87635     85485     68809       |     67902     54225       40548     14810     25236     42670     38716         .     44850

 Germany                   33340     33629     20975       |     31493     22745        7297     10978     11728     12394      9213     14799      7728

 Honduras                      0     24662      2827       |     26100         .           .        28     13400     15500         .         .      6497

 Egypt                     67298     55049     19127       |     19175     21322       19127         .         .      6131     21043     12934       388

 Italy                      9069     19369     12910       |     16897     16572        4648      8022      4909      9401      5803     10549      6226

 France                     5744      4380      7413       |     14112      6828         237        46      5683      3001      5861       193     17426

 Vietnam                   13101      1497       542       |     10764     14172           .       543     10763         .     12036      2116        44

 Peru                       9170     11028      3508       |      8625     15815           .       266      3677      3404      7368      2621     12148

 Israel                      236     10843     14986       |      6195        83       10298      4599        17      6178         .         .        83

 Japan                      3447      3593      9958       |      5937      6452        3618      2908      1804      4919       773      5159       914

 Taiwan                     8777     14797      6439       |      4334     10646        2212      2606      3476      2128      1162      4451     46927

 _ASEAN                   106864     89393     71162       |     81344     70556       42330     15395     38677     42671     50753      4274     45692

 _CBI                       4705     24662      2881       |     26710       425          45        41     13400     15533       992         .      6497

 _CAFTA-DR                  4705     24662      2881       |     26710       425          45        41     13400     15533       992         .      6497

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             9170     11028      3508       |      8629     15816           .       266      3677      3408      7368      2621     12149

 _SUB-SAHARA                  24        54         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .