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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 222:  KNIT FABRIC
                                                      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                  11290167  12016207  10092394       |  11461115  13057694     3510629   4274559   5772834   5392220   4850644   6218701   6324106

 China                   7332841   7748142   5823230       |   7171757   8500215     2014509   2716172   3522178   3633254   3036722   4069084   4294651

 Korea, South            2094127   2404203   2075053       |   2352249   2329285      888892    735946   1246342    909328   1011265   1150720    985276

 Taiwan                   501598    494973    444555       |    613370    506851      135095    162021    370675    236833    197648    235590    286172

 India                    365532    413979    755262       |    327000    654160      216823    297092    212840    130993    254717    273861    259223

 Vietnam                  134531     71163    121561       |    263178    157755       33932     44339     95382    140520     84228     94213     44977

 Italy                    106349     90446    107609       |    109345     89634       56641     42323     38031     63510     43563     30945     58640

 Turkey                    29954    128526     62419       |    108776    130034       14953     10609     29043     30734     57307     56224     75062

 Mexico                   131875     66052    115436       |     99726    103415       27630     68410     29207     73211      6922     42646     64820

 Japan                    114506     83354     62620       |     95438     76835       30442     32778     20572     41554     48101     50114     24607

 Indonesia                226219    223178     84717       |     56918     97562       18422     32731     68659     21046     35582     31414     31745

 Hong Kong                  3243      6017     27802       |     48547     52484         487     27344     19624     28964      2955     29518     20137

 Honduras                    181       189     35946       |     35761     19833        2514     17157     18266     17499       529       325     19190

 Thailand                  24800     17342     35792       |     26636     37712       13484     22463     19047     15524     11428     20596      5689

 El Salvador                5693     15583      9693       |     24453     17778        3790      3538     24674       461      4278     13351      4021

 Liberia                       .         .         .       |     23015         .           .         .     23015         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                   385676    311795    244874       |    346764    301282       66043    102176    183092    177122    131292    153920     82945

 _CBI                      13664     16752     48862       |     64465     42360        6316     20811     44236     20511      7742     15648     23774

 _CAFTA-DR                 13664     16752     48862       |     63964     42360        6316     20811     44236     20010      7742     15648     23774

 _SUB-SAHARA                1248     11406     15516       |     23081     32612         768      3831     23289         .        66     32612       660

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              357       881      5256       |      1023      8535        4752       375       230       801      4224      3868       708