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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 229:  SPECIAL PURPOSE 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                  12565265  14878739  13740302       |  13556715  10875665     5830785   5326567   7028509   6353421   4482264   5069931   4894984

 Vietnam                 3648269   3754181   4346641       |   4970559   1588767     2082982   1562883   2551604   2513201    924367    803231    575683

 China                   2215453   2241378   3346079       |   3363215   3660149     2005596   1677481   1816069   1421118   1438402   1440619   1891072

 Korea, South            1684907   1823729   1592331       |   1509673   1631781      553853    682118    779714    760235    597688    747155    740900

 Taiwan                   809234   1253267    821653       |    886305   1127094      339088    308931    429067    319584    499390    595271    463161

 Mexico                   771261   1067514    831517       |    861658    673575      358905    263426    467852    471910    122002    443710    265775

 Israel                   621857   1643450    182394       |    556259    239790       40190     96762    308943    248314    154614    101771    212882

 India                    283708    249847    196353       |    280821    272199       63441     73927    147562    107505    116699    126944    101444

 Japan                    277926    331015    246370       |    236949    412730      124725    110931    188630    101881    131845    229031     99256

 United Kingdom            47537     28366     67296       |     76251     48110       24521     37985     18749     34545     38436      8776     36214

 Germany                   90109    112027    132248       |     73685    102185       28884     85607     22259     35064     42481     26245    105290

 Turkey                    23124     91023    103669       |     73181    172722       27515     72459     35303     48041     53444     92547     28919

 Portugal                 157768    188342     44823       |     65060     83259       12375     15565     17417     48140     17879     29047     49415

 Netherlands               71998     72191     36778       |     63261     79321        4550     28664      4702     33365     35455     44481     28908

 Thailand                  39498     29189     54169       |     60183     63511       25504     15410     50941     10995      8753     46517     12279

 Luxembourg                34692     37984      2724       |     49587         .        2724         .         .     49580         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                  3808614   3837836   4489561       |   5102677   1746837     2149629   1621016   2657172   2540819    956756    891393    630719

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            21163      5446     11780       |     12633     50328         647      8611      4856     10374     18622     31580       627

 _CBI                      15507      7485     10054       |      5104      2322         856      8969      1561      3550       131      1453      3496

 _CAFTA-DR                 13965      4885     10054       |      5104      2322         856      8969      1561      3550       131      1453      3496

 _SUB-SAHARA               40341     75583      6979       |       182      6412          19      6754       153        67        19      6305      1802