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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 446:  W/G 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                     32923     20833    215777       |     41658     21972       88848     68130     30479     12545     12954     10849      8304

 China                     26614     17464    194080       |     35949     18240       82369     55214     27010      9975     11411      9483      6031

 Italy                      1212      1057      4028       |      1592      1231        2920       861       975       664       369       473       817

 Peru                       1094       333      2306       |      1329       403         517      1181       986       446       453       174       192

 United Kingdom              304       176       523       |       387       187         230       201       178       227        52       131        97

 Ecuador                     882       103       744       |       338        66         289       357       356       141        17         .        86

 Portugal                      5         8        29       |       244        50           .        19        24       166        83        12        28

 Ireland                     456        49       633       |       241        48         115       468       137       174         .        17        82

 Nepal                       106        50       145       |       198        22          72        90        74       137        21         .        38

 Norway                      205        24       284       |       185        16          52       110       129        72         .         .        14

 Indonesia                   145       121       533       |       185       254         191       214       101        75        90       159        47

 Thailand                    100         2        11       |       172         .          23        24        14       127        38         .         .

 France                      119       105       125       |        98       102          77        49        45        44        70        29        68

 Bolivia                     197        16       102       |        98        70          50        90         .        37        57         .        60

 Turkey                      340       189       388       |        85        35          53       177        42        40        22        12        19

 Hong Kong                   351       408       561       |        68       518         199       287        79         .       175       149       207

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             2173       452      3152       |      1775       540         856      1629      1353       633       529       185       338

 _ASEAN                      245       298       544       |       358       262         217       239       117       202       128       165        50

 _CBI                          0         0      1042       |         .         .        1042         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA-DR                     0         0      1042       |         .         .        1042         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0       412       |         .        10         223       194         .         .         .         .         .