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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 340:  M/B COTTON SHIRTS, NOT KNIT
                                                      Data in Doz.

(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                   2658600   3364668   2517953       |   2318055   2871710      976490    980950   1079040   1029178   1085488   1356593   1432355

 China                    831754   1022563    683751       |    682772    796867      266335    277684    310077    305559    346397    372686    369601

 Bangladesh               693731    902365    648607       |    530112    788712      231150    212475    248203    196074    290571    385903    396413

 Indonesia                272526    317121    235255       |    235155    285993       76863     99741     86219    126146    103444    139329    147100

 Vietnam                  219702    290069    163387       |    186276    207288       81092     87153    105585     77943     77187    106943    118784

 India                    159105    243290    177502       |    135594    242472       65822     62770     58826     62928     76232     95094    125808

 Mauritius                 37938     67155     94128       |     72674     81192       26894     27197     26412     37797     41265     28359     32339

 Malaysia                  53817     55747     45498       |     64680     63640       25243     21956     31322     32648     11607     39296     27709

 El Salvador               56529     50373     45941       |     61441     37748       14561     37989     25206     32364      9863     21353     26217

 Honduras                  32243     25672     47819       |     58343     31443       17020     13076     28811     31517     10480     15933     22803

 Sri Lanka                 67095     81190     73138       |     44339     74331       27602     21819     31141     17873     25974     31902     32429

 Nicaragua                  5380     25811     64509       |     38093     43515       37875     20054     33143      8031     18814      9780     20256

 Mexico                    35571     32162     35723       |     34372     33588        8886     19573     16947     16213     12676     11278     19242

 Egypt                     24674     39421     21745       |     32044     28156       17031      5492     18144      7643     12536     12638     15551

 Philippines               30462     26653     18340       |     31964     35330        5236      5696      9239     21191      8643     24035      9626

 Hong Kong                 20965     32955      7739       |     14963      7672        7699      6296      8998      6346      2807      3544      3319

 _ASEAN                   618590    733381    520444       |    534896    635974      210988    233925    238553    264630    214133    337038    317557

 _CBI                     109590    106650    174056       |    171142    121491       76378     78211     94387     78670     42315     49998     78119

 _CAFTA-DR                107128    106261    172051       |    168712    121201       75983     76636     93646     76995     42019     49997     75329

 _SUB-SAHARA               40375     94774     97830       |     74450     81777       28247     33438     26580     39457     41423     28707     35817

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             3766      3844      5304       |      4948      2366         892      1220      2063      2929       677      1029       890