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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 226:  CHEESECLOTH, BATISTES, LAWNS/VOILE
                                                      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                   8494607   9210361   9157289       |  14889301  15531389     3653772   4492453   7723689   4640134   4795387  10679788   5661617

 China                   6455163   6936574   8367911       |  12794043  13515634     3361193   4181514   6010798   4530686   3697413   9531828   5236301

 India                    507177    397424    119670       |   1201957   1029144      109505      8327   1159788     42209    227178    791229    237582

 Mexico                   125446         0         0       |    313847      3839           .         .    313847         .         .         .      3839

 Pakistan                 197078     57809    175721       |    170078    116917      138194     37855     32675      9457    128482    116357     21478

 El Salvador                   0      4522     86331       |    135309         .           .         .         .         .    135309         .         .

 Korea, South             209403    196534    221874       |    107273    184465       14532    153615     83902     20260     24563    160227     76778

 Japan                     26415     69132     44912       |     55101     82228       13419       343     40679      7122     38580     25251     57335

 Finland                   32566      2178     24725       |     24732      3908        1323     13792     15454      8016      1322       563      3790

 United Kingdom             4431      3306      3562       |     15700      3236        1562      1748      2408     13030       568      1814      1585

 Germany                   46208     73503      9292       |     15406      9454        7555       973     23671       770      9362        58       191

 Ivory Coast                   .         .         .       |     12290         .           .         .     12290         .         .         .         .

 Morocco                       0         0         0       |      8266       100           .         .      8266         .         .       100         .

 Italy                      9990    590253     26204       |      7839      7677        2374     21763      2977      4404      4223      2153     16063

 Portugal                   1372         0       685       |      7591       294           .       272      7581         .        10       181       113

 Taiwan                        0         0         0       |      7510         .           .         .         .      1375      6135         .         .

 _CBI                      55563      4647     86331       |    135309    380524           .         .         .         .    515833         .         .

 _CAFTA-DR                 55563      4647     86331       |    135309    380524           .         .         .         .    515833         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         0       |     12290         .           .         .     12290         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                    32202    233791     65797       |      2769    177141           .     65843      2397       194    138454     39077        14

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                6         0         0       |       412         .           .         .         .         .       412         .         .