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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 201:  SPECIALTY YARNS
                                                      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                   2796970   3807951   2429462       |   2949370   4793412      945410   1266296   1218892   1331854   1383123   1573843   2984935

 Portugal                 199243    925100     65426       |   1055038   2486730      264375    245813    330679    555024    483404    439611   1938782

 Mexico                   433318    263864    420074       |    401975    340627      152470    170724    186306    108476    169103    174364    154390

 China                    287125    225007    538540       |    388947    445455      118331    280726    204214    167302    209945    145225    232015

 India                    194680    169865     84893       |    206482    155826       54923     52382    116055    102217     44812     96267     71186

 Vietnam                  211458    129008    182810       |    171862    225276       62460    100511     81696     45248    102415    168498     56769

 United Arab Emirates     575248    806249    183767       |    138161     18599       54972    110405     36933     64816     55011         .         .

 Korea, South             149075     70834    108212       |     99928    128187       25215     68472     47043     57994     22734     83934     35160

 Thailand                 104191    148307    154742       |     95918     80697       63218     48970     60093     34056     19199     49360     31338

 Philippines                1870         0     11000       |     82000     30250       11000      2468     21799     48121     29381      2281     10969

 France                    69420     56017     78328       |     47668     59182        9508     41156     24388     35708      1356     41946     17541

 Costa Rica                29492    220661     71621       |     41827    467431       32154     19149         .     25759    131043    178260    270432

 Guatemala                 17706     84902      2359       |     33789    102394           .         .     22083         .     13956     88696     22761

 Italy                     24928     62964     43945       |     31978     30928         755     32851      3466     11772     24922     19220      5475

 Colombia                  41808     26384     29472       |     27515     33360        4230     13251     13427     11700     10086     28943      8930

 Turkey                    83207     87189     42315       |     23036     39843       23686     14373      9985      9051     15634     23637     23635

 _ASEAN                   318627    302065    367971       |    352447    342970      155479    151949    165795    128599    156488    220241    100228

 _CBI                      47222    305623     83207       |     76878    583385       32189     28336     22088     27021    144999    266956    306768

 _CAFTA-DR                 47222    305623     83207       |     76878    583385       32189     28336     22088     27021    144999    266956    306768

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            49613     30963     29972       |     39629     33964        4230     13251     13427     20068     13832     29330      9834

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0      1101       697       |         .       611           .         .       697         .         .       611         .