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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 225:  BLUE DENIM FABRIC
                                                      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                   2094561   1630468   2159615       |   2635738   2466961      875965    774881   1408589   1309301    855136   1409931   1163347

 China                    670413    373837    818416       |   1209760   1125776      423606    236325    723096    544805    414070    693450    417148

 Mexico                   568678    382260    251529       |    538389    370234       74047     97188    171378    382002     35812    309606    147490

 Taiwan                   281166    327291    271531       |    337641    522992       78895    131137    184789     53229    288446    152604    453755

 Italy                    264881    312289    233694       |    287043    211305       86533    112914    130357    155765     39138    109250    103320

 Japan                    150215     83953    283710       |    150721     86884      118428    104393     64560    117134     31482     49420      8000

 Turkey                   110724    120314    150744       |     96652     79469       67564     32638     94607     44138     44673     37974     16521

 Hong Kong                     0         0     22768       |     14079         .        4139     18629      3048     11031         .         .         .

 Greece                        0         0         0       |      1195      1425           .         .         .      1195         .         .      1425

 Switzerland                   0         0       283       |       195         .          88         .       195         .         .         .         .

 United Kingdom                0         0        26       |        39         .          14        26         .         .        39         .         .

 Indonesia                     0         0       259       |        22         .           .         .        22         .         .         .         .

 Canada                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Guatemala                     0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Honduras                      0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Nicaragua                     0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .      5914

 _ASEAN                        0       411       279       |        22      4932           .         .        22         .         .      4932         .

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .      5914

 _CAFTA-DR                     0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .      5914

 _SUB-SAHARA                 266       363         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .