_________________________________________
                                          |                                         |
                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                              February 6, 2012
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
                                          |                                         |
                                          |               By Category               |
                                          |_________________________________________|

                                           Category 445:  M/B SWEATERS, WOOL
                                                      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                      8273      4247     35300       |      9614      7061       14456     13010      8566      3402      3600      3362      1995

 China                      4880      2326     27241       |      5945      4213       11994      9226      6056      1701      2447      1893      1026

 Italy                      1194      1120      2398       |      1514      1275         655      1106       870       668       418       668       559

 France                       82        42       606       |       472       287          33       295       425       162       249       156        23

 United Kingdom              223        82       815       |       261       416         158       345       182        95       236       160        72

 Turkey                       59        54       198       |       221        31          14       151       148        67        27        22         .

 Korea, South                  0         6        23       |       185         .           .        23         .       185         .         .         .

 Peru                        112        54       513       |       154       111         282       280       169       103        39        40        47

 Ireland                     200        13       462       |       115        15         162       188       141        84        13         .        19

 Romania                      47        27       236       |       104        98          41       171       124        17        60        32        19

 Norway                      212        43       189       |        78        17          68        16        52        34         .         .        11

 Bolivia                      88         0        87       |        61         .          45        67         .        51         .         .         .

 Bangladesh                    0         0       137       |        61         .           .       124         .        60         .         .         .

 Slovakia                      0         9       329       |        60         .           .       260        69        35         .         .         .

 Hong Kong                    59        50       143       |        60       120          27       103        14        26        32       103        12

 Tunisia                      37         3        62       |        41        41          59        34        42        12         .        29        12

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              209        54       863       |       219       149         481       427       247       155        47        77        48

 _ASEAN                       15        18        22       |        15        27           .         .        12         .         .        17         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                 106         5       121       |        13         .         119         .         .         .         .         .        11

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

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