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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 444:  W/G SUITS, WOOL
                                                      Data in Nos.

(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                     38239     52695     14128       |     39696     32019        5747      8170      3687     23059     18643      7938     25479

 China                     31707     38224      9028       |     30021     24680        1519      7389      2507     14270     15639      5370     23367

 Philippines                   0         0      1031       |      8206      2951        1031         .         .      8206         .      2068       883

 India                       303       156       436       |       482       427         177       208       389       150       111       230       193

 Romania                      40        22       204       |       302       284          82        99       242       109       102       157        83

 Italy                       641       776       827       |       238       492         449       355       319       119        56        42       498

 United Kingdom               10         1       134       |       176       143          62        71       128        55        38        53        75

 France                        1         8         0       |        63         .           .         .         .        63         .         .         .

 Vietnam                    5400       420      2400       |        53        10        2403         .         .         .        43         .         .

 Nepal                         0       102         0       |        36         .           .         .        36         .         .         .         .

 Slovakia                      1       282         0       |        35         .           .         .         .        35         .         .         .

 Chile                        70        48        14       |        19        19          14         .        14         .        16         .         .

 Hong Kong                     9         0        15       |        14         .           .        28         .        14         .         .         .

 Taiwan                        .         .         .       |        12         .           .         .         .        12         .         .         .

 Turkey                        0         0         9       |        11        19           .         .        16         .         .         .        16

 Canada                       20        50        21       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                     5400      4807      3431       |      8259      2961        3434         .        16      8215        43      2071       889

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

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

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0        24         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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