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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 317:  COTTON TWILL 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                   6686793   7086459   5176717       |   5405268   5905842     2013277   2038916   2682873   1735737   3457014   2646215   2473600

 China                   4436908   4497334   2507964       |   3281119   3750847      921201   1098430   1718415    844630   2603782   1601729   1341528

 Pakistan                 707358   1442827   1081897       |    594281    588630      417697    411814    355704    262060    194590    285169    235754

 Japan                     64228     35348    377793       |    310165     79295       92809    144939    179810    114102    110603      4338    149550

 United Arab Emirates          0     36533     47207       |    233073         .           .     47207         .    139480     93593         .         .

 Mexico                   159079     40867     91300       |    201356     22207         180     31219    102519     75771     27190      6004     52104

 Turkey                    27095     48702     88585       |    166730    293241        4733     28935     69689     38220    124709    103548    191884

 Taiwan                   625374    289103    537070       |    137309    392513      382424    135608     21307      6596    172688     99468    287780

 India                    197352    281681    203997       |    134635    295726       58059     82298     69028    115856     14480    206658     84120

 Italy                     62774     44203     53440       |     92323     74777        8920     32755     47764     23823     34574     23802     63397

 Peru                       6104     33244     12767       |     62685     21129       12709       365     42207        50     20428     21129         .

 Austria                     178         0     12998       |     52556      9224       12858       140         .     47043      5513      9224         .

 United Kingdom             3862      5102       628       |     25839      1099        1701       269     25582       171       269       629       670

 Korea, South              82677     34441     11417       |     22664     13105           .      3008      9082     18055      3277      5419      8552

 Indonesia                  4816      4172         0       |     22297     16064           .         .     11622     10675         .     16064         .

 France                    14273       240      8637       |     19108      1122          39       187     14465        16     13475       659       194

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             7300     33244     12767       |     62685     21129       12709       365     42207        50     20428     21129         .

 _ASEAN                    14780    133444     78713       |     35803     17065       71569        10     11717     16971      7540     16702       196

 _CBI                       2559      6911     11561       |       142     18925           .      9465        74        68         .         .     18925

 _CAFTA-DR                  2559      6911     11561       |       142     18685           .      9465        74        68         .         .     18685

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