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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 224:  PILE / TUFTED FABRICS
                                                      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                  14613125  15019309  14054526       |  14303795  17994830     8153697   8008638   6580881   7349674   6630667   7415471   7589025

 China                   6644887   7586343  10929287       |  11872933  12687282     6573660   5538512   5752171   5898170   4688822   5393211   5688331

 Taiwan                   923817    506883   1021366       |    746012    752449      342686    454922    368346    333721    295440    374072    260640

 Malta and Gozo          3189562   2745789    693350       |    572273   1829587      666128   1365170         .    572273    613593    600132    615862

 Korea, South             439990    504081    579136       |    450053    418485      203378    344586    208860    193479    228208    180486    120980

 India                    246237    291954    254770       |    232785    211683       66473     61728     80958    127028    116509    100223     88622

 Mexico                   158820    114926    112765       |    101958    144663       56879     51026     48520     37826     31737     39018    113355

 Argentina                 69021     66691    106914       |     76241     84457       28065     78849     12345     47305     39415     27881     50457

 Italy                     70098    111687     69616       |     60585     44508       21403     43417     26934     30208     19241     21147     24836

 Belgium                   43227     40969     48254       |     44511     47178       26903     12073     23321     15666     19227     22611     29117

 Turkey                    93596    107062     43939       |     42003     84302       36875     15461     17274     27543     24130     57107     20259

 Pakistan                 109551    201158     28893       |     37353     52257       14926     13967      9732     27621         .     52257     21320

 United Kingdom             6887      1662      1130       |      9403      1927        1030       147      8815       269       357      1845      1510

 Germany                   48509     10048     15314       |      8806     13329        3554      7700      6245      2316      4054      8299      5254

 Netherlands                5365      6140      8043       |      8712      9767        3592      3756      5873      2915      3328      4402      4101

 Brazil                    71331     28362      1330       |      7092     14542           .      1138       192      7092         .     14542         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             8482      2687      2993       |      1524      2241        1399      1783       743       830       761       784      2742

 _CBI                          0         0      4815       |       457      3670           .      1841      2974       457         .         .      3670

 _CAFTA-DR                     0         0      4815       |       457      3670           .      1841      2974       457         .         .      3670

 _ASEAN                     8153     25955     31066       |       111     76415      100911      4634         .       111      1415         .     75000

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0        39       |         .        73          72         .         .         .         .        73         .