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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 345:  COTTON SWEATERS
                                                      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                    442832    423588    946230       |    539608    550534      462487    317826    279088    246564    251422    255304    229352

 China                    384186    352578    867445       |    495027    490228      432406    291757    258796    222976    237619    221472    205436

 Bangladesh                29058     20352     26113       |     14087     15075       15386      3002      6780      7001      4633      6438      5805

 Indonesia                   782      3224      5642       |      4942      3495         524      2935      1926      2399       708      2837      1906

 Vietnam                    3049     18057     10028       |      4418      3950        4016      5379       552      4235      1189      1772       996

 Pakistan                   4226      2240      6717       |      2848      6841        2344      1622      1648      1458       972      4498      2532

 Cambodia                   3116      2879      3935       |      2655       899         411      2701      1092      1687       320       415       369

 Taiwan                     4053      4706      9729       |      2140      1862        1400      3287       831      1013       343      1164       660

 Italy                       861      1838       998       |      1688      2067         322       547       950       725       345       934      1266

 Peru                       1287      2039      2126       |      1617      1751         703      1239      1052       432      1133       662       476

 El Salvador                  67       263      1073       |      1398       151         708       202       360      1284         .         .       215

 Turkey                      309      1014       807       |      1276      1730         329       752       923       382       113       227      1577

 India                      2922      2851      1696       |      1239      2427         615       223       224       370       863      1563      1072

 Thailand                   1446      2553       707       |      1067      4242         712       610      1343       307       134      1894      2316

 Hong Kong                  3673      1439      3767       |       987      1883        1617      1684       662       193       417      1054       903

 Sri Lanka                    32       333         0       |       957       660         392       243       222       463       627       325        18

 _ASEAN                     8579     26923     20315       |     13278     15399        5667     11628      5039      8690      3436      7545      6780

 _CBI                        266      1927      1229       |      1938       439         709       203       730      1434       376         .       239

 _CAFTA-DR                   266      1927      1229       |      1938       439         709       203       730      1434       376         .       239

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             2197      2274      2357       |      1669      1832         807      1271      1175       451      1145       715       497

 _SUB-SAHARA                 906       150       353       |       146        42         121       258         .         .       155         .        57