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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 617:  MMF TWILL AND SATEEN FABRIC
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                   1292659   1197016   1757627       |   1701169   2645638      757772    963953    692682    632390   1074321    919470   1230987

 China                    631978    457623   1144822       |    847668   1065013      163568    819388    478066    233211    453767    483719    303374

 Pakistan                 240084    180663    489170       |    519006    661165      568026     77028    169798    160247    435457    272370    280511

 Taiwan                   142791     32998     63199       |     90738    210370        1566     44458     23255     62910     36592     96940     95676

 Hong Kong                     0         0         0       |     68423      4283           .         .      1339     67084      4283         .         .

 Mexico                        0      2631         0       |     67904         .           .         .         .     67904         .         .         .

 Thailand                 112101     99949         0       |     38541    109994          13         .         .        25     41776     22402     84330

 Turkey                     9083      1211     24891       |     23177    291839       22691      2200      5694     10487      8604     12642    277589

 El Salvador                3322     13176     10037       |     20321      1511           .     10037         .     15970      4351      1511      4527

 Peru                          0         0         0       |      7112         .           .         .         .      7112         .         .         .

 Japan                     17365     15219      2938       |      5700     29276           .      2727        15      4814      1706     25047      3394

 Italy                       535       148     14266       |      5104      8698          51      7560     10215      1171      1447      2185      5072

 India                      1971      3115      3380       |      4322      2644           .         .      3127      1195       148      1671       825

 Korea, South              10160      1094         0       |      2111      6087         272         .       613       102      4431       533      2615

 Israel                        0         0       643       |       412         .         643         .       412         .         .         .         .

 Spain                       757        12        54       |       281      1549           .        54       144       137      1249         .       492

 _ASEAN                   112101     99949         0       |     38541    109994          13         .         .        25     41776     22402     84330

 _CBI                       3322     16116     10461       |     20321      1511         424     10037         .     15970      4351      1511      4527

 _CAFTA-DR                  3322     16116     10461       |     20321      1511         424     10037         .     15970      4351      1511      4527

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |      7112         .           .         .         .      7112         .         .         .

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