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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 301:  COMBED COTTON YARN
                                                      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                   1080778   1578680   2032648       |   1191911   1553052      895922    763527    828181    702583    406849    653478    834523

 Korea, South              64230    269164    539658       |    442961    752189      231040    142081    307640    324409    202820    292143    492221

 India                    106196    127175    464392       |    292960    229260      217390    240238    195990    111357     78528     76066    113235

 Indonesia                148139    243186    220661       |    146690    231342      111088    109395    109497     57899     72700     81217     77425

 Vietnam                   91501     76204    247663       |     75977         .       57153     57153    133357     75977         .         .         .

 Mexico                   288368    438726    103813       |     69890    153201       56866     35392     51947     21290         .    110938     42263

 Pakistan                  37598     94152    120659       |     44881     65340       61065     31698     17802     20411      6668     39984     42819

 Thailand                 198408    191512    230543       |     40156     45420      124674    103465         .     40156      3447       998     41429

 China                     40822     71810     66296       |     37478     26946       12848     37342      6553     15205     21654     23002      6803

 Egypt                     74218     40724         0       |     20061     22269           .         .         .     20061     14330      7939     15770

 Hungary                       0         0      4379       |     11065         .           .      4379         .      9462      1603         .         .

 Switzerland                5627       471         0       |      6210       433           .         .         .      6210         .         .       433

 Macau                         0         0      1315       |      1315         .           .         .      1315         .         .         .         .

 Italy                      2359       469      7363       |      1137      5827        4407      1910       886       127      4359      1561       837

 France                      789       935       740       |       915       660          19        37       785        19       149       171       990

 Taiwan                        0     19958     19554       |       212        59       19051       437       123         .       214         .         .

 _ASEAN                   438048    510902    701129       |    262823    276762      292915    270013    245116    174032     76147     82215    118854

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

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

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             3533       143         0       |         .        53           .         .         .         .         .        53         .