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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 459:  OTHER WOOL APPAREL
                                                      Data in Kg..

(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                     83233     70640    198868       |     92252     78316      103413     64154     55735     44365     27027     32281     39461

 China                     41154     44260    124456       |     39717     39321       66791     35246     23865     17773     12358     15020     21280

 Italy                      7500      5402     17222       |     10651     10703        5987      6993      5346      4643      3395      4911      5537

 India                      4712      6679     12419       |      6397      5477        9111      3953      3711      2103      2795      2898      2064

 Vietnam                    7286      2414      7051       |      6372      6088        4524      1062      3974      2762      3366      1412      1924

 Peru                       3737      1109      6494       |      4560      1505        2841      2677      2246      2427      1089       765       599

 Mexico                     1840       976      1253       |      4331      2796         654       882      1392      4122       419       801      2832

 Indonesia                  2058       337      4209       |      3441      1968        3590       316      1159      2542        64      1903         .

 United Kingdom             2803      1155      8022       |      2953      1655        3130      4190      2041      1239       405       805      1097

 Nepal                      2532      1520      4289       |      2800      1510        2418      1425      2277      1298       435       873       510

 Jordan                      494       360       853       |      1507      1743         742       581      3618       299       531       259       953

 France                      884       541      2523       |      1193       770         603      1268       977       729       394       402       455

 Israel                        0         0         1       |      1175         .           .         .         .      1175         .         .         .

 Colombia                    154       366       156       |       611       554          10        55       388       313        16       388       155

 Germany                     313        41       494       |       469       327          83       334       229       111       223       250        93

 Turkey                      455       750       299       |       466       741         168       151       107       196       557       235       153

 _ASEAN                    10920      3170     12672       |     10372      8198        8273      2402      5849      5588      3436      3403      1996

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             4447      1812      7763       |      5494      2213        3220      3890      2761      2897      1196      1251       791

 _CBI                         97         0       756       |        66        57           .       746        50        22         .         .        53

 _CAFTA-DR                    97         0       756       |        65        57           .       746        50        21         .         .        53

 _SUB-SAHARA                  42       463       161       |        28        15           .       107        64        18        12         .         .