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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)
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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