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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 603:  YARN > 85% ARTIFICIAL STAPLE FIBER
                                                      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                   1571825   2290540   1515101       |   1171304   1981793      542028    909894    727185    450885    663652    932405    852534

 Indonesia                721301   1321948    875265       |    658491   1148651      310564    591022    433706    206934    468348    447741    549773

 India                     99063     32611    100420       |    173038    216853       30158     29131    117033     54667     90525    114004     57280

 China                    133009    266170    112066       |     93860    228698       25133     94163     43012     46805     28400    150571     86808

 Vietnam                   68823     59331     93081       |     77172     37771       19497     55450     37596     39576         .     37771         .

 Spain                     81182     69037     72621       |     76739     47091       43952     28669     28564     16419     31756     31445     15646

 Australia                101558    109332     52860       |     55258    109594       36820     16040     36604     55258     36283     36612     36699

 Turkey                    54715     12154     48217       |     17255     41785           .     32436         .     17255         .      9088     32697

 Korea, South              90109     47667     37604       |     13971     11366       37604         .         .     13971         .     11366         .

 Switzerland                1614         0         0       |      2951         .           .         .      2951         .         .         .         .

 France                        0         0         0       |      1673         .           .         .         .         .      1673         .         .

 Italy                        89        73        45       |       522       318         185        24       522         .       256         .       193

 Hungary                       0         0       296       |       283         .         296         .       283         .         .         .         .

 Taiwan                      146    158022     18808       |        62      6578           .     18808        62         .         .        46      6532

 Mexico                     5248         0        29       |        29         .           .         .        29         .         .         .         .

 Canada                      108      5615      2923       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                   991339   1553538   1061728       |    735663   1299931      367880    683139    478280    246510    468348    579112    603672

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

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