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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 223:  NON-WOVEN FABRICS
                                                      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                  15308928  17098365  15854416       |  14248239  15878828     5319213   6872207   7942866   5742545   6801999   7090706   7523579

 China                   3067621   3422734   3987919       |   3866410   5713992     1742785   2003806   2135282   1776166   1880438   2775162   2475113

 Israel                  1198827   1496083    943089       |   1269164   1073749      249854    646196    562758    538383    628039    403746    441504

 Mexico                  1387197   1307199   1356277       |   1171781    947302      619679    643983    580680    446985    492398    346137    693309

 India                    810599   1069827    910004       |   1065354   1233281      123598    549118    576126    647696    194054    738018    621913

 Germany                 1373643   1257636   1084065       |    913934    972270      385686    473616    529274    401661    423932    424923    579193

 France                   762543    756192    902320       |    738664    755829      389627    339854    398481    258446    350149    355900    402699

 Korea, South             471878    439097    395324       |    637744    546814      149655    160820    381979    222890    241901    305587    275208

 Japan                    459284    479029    674902       |    622895    766905      180054    301890    524049    271621    188662    292879    397112

 Malaysia                  11460     17301    703699       |    438337    371535      238603    290315    526131      4703         .     79606    296287

 Italy                    546258    573421    380013       |    407418    304784      107912    163582    214557     94971    192839    169785     89337

 Luxembourg               255540    709785    170398       |    402898    585221       61552    108846     27281     71304    807491     94634         .

 Brazil                   849437    917385     57330       |    352305     83298         350     66855     48242     12347    304282     60105     10627

 Turkey                   254541    503146    635308       |    333657    305527      288725    303386    160944    148916    105831    109094    283645

 Poland                   249675    216823    229905       |    304768    184534       63702    141880    137621    105084     97476    135581     59989

 Taiwan                   288937    296796    295874       |    278415    269400       84416    109265    214510    131198    146753    114506     97884

 _ASEAN                   360324    353438   1035280       |    802071    653923      411687    388833    715746    187068    127863    191287    399685

 _SUB-SAHARA               58922     62316      1354       |     33440    149881        1354         .       137     12015     21288    135991     45890

 _CBI                      30078     47782     60386       |     29980     42117        6828     32929     20778     21508     27384      6763      9376

 _CAFTA-DR                 30078     47782     57563       |     29980     42117        6828     30106     20778     21508     27384      6763      9376

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              283       860         0       |      7110      2463           .         .      6946         .      1095      1532         .