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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 220:  FABRIC OF SPECIAL WEAVE
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                   7520809   7559029  10270010       |  11242244  12851185     4306023   6361912   4980102   5151911   5268785   5762871   6406960

 China                   3867147   4715193   5490024       |   6333277   7322076     2488225   4084093   2823109   2764827   3590987   2945018   3594234

 Saudi Arabia                  0         0   1117444       |   1124986   1780021      544775    564179    545127    194040    534097   1285437    346306

 Pakistan                 920121    438949   1036418       |    857843   1386059      430947    584735    435480    461024    333344    456990    752551

 India                    588382    490311    683930       |    677322    391370      282424    283845    352645    300351    139120    195034    175188

 Indonesia                126592      1193     87109       |    527461     12162       61665      4440      9343    517871      6518      5891    462025

 Taiwan                   321539    324265    160964       |    213332    255721       36857     74727     91362    171651     64176    138196     89059

 Turkey                    88359    120479    171893       |    210849    179133      106380     18447     89641    121684    115937     69667    343112

 Mexico                   190014    112791    108248       |    199486     97453        1260      3315    105222    101392      3472      1802     99835

 Korea, South             200362    237263    246450       |    197603    209927       29262    210949     80574     94402    132886     52083     60472

 Italy                    231840    239615    225792       |    187604    203618      115551     97173     81965    101565     44350    121559     84099

 Netherlands               27224     22097     38202       |    100984     37391         276     35861     99667      1525     34944      1964       586

 Japan                     37590     46409     70280       |     94557     20307       40462      9719     14511     53489     33700      8077     19111

 Turkmenistan             162028         0         0       |     82503     83198           .         .         .     82503         .     83198       366

 Spain                     41435     24577     30115       |     60765     31819        6911     21699      4749     43678     27041      8059     12957

 Germany                   50546     68525     50430       |     54897     39924       12193     29029     30161     19430     36118      6936     13098

 _ASEAN                   197308     65180    144149       |    568599    109618       62658      5742     88626    524281     21016     76524    475092

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            52416     49700      9377       |     30585     16823         307      9004     29073      1524        45     11555      5237

 _CBI                       9669      7474     16171       |     26674      5262         772     11074     17956       341     11395      2689       139

 _CAFTA-DR                  9669      7474     16171       |     26674      5262         772     11074     17956       341     11395      2689       139

 _SUB-SAHARA                 285         0      3277       |       664       493           .       422      3304       215         .        29       461