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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 619:  POLYESTER FILAMENT FABRIC, LIGHT-WEIGHT
                                                      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                  16604654  17593746  24183127       |  25141964  26251920     9075292   9138479  13741289  10343280  10459613  10276130  14872081

 China                   6916372   7755886  11428465       |  13435582  16127273     4492697   4565514   6468945   5936559   5891615   5953576  10530343

 Korea, South            5496668   5009486   6585356       |   5040219   5283511     2853507   2610933   3051614   2295239   2106127   2329688   2052417

 Taiwan                   988486   1039697   2050780       |   2074904   1635092      527805    642678   1448726    553565   1089402    595279    560648

 Indonesia                 90130    108109    167233       |   1118194    155625       29334     11087   1239860     12108     70122     39377     51899

 India                    583045    534271    727080       |    882085    920701      279809    291571    244289    400994    384572    422094    466670

 Turkey                   574365    879880    656803       |    713601    549186      320295    142633    323708    358989    293964    151358    421438

 Japan                    517572    307248    614229       |    594109    494668      251990    242899    293967    259889    266349    278978    103834

 Thailand                 258851    277162    611788       |    405478    182590      117748    306589    324316    180462      3722     80714     98175

 Malaysia                 132734    224174    147806       |    247985    156008       82637     39979    168141     75992     72091     34935     86918

 Vietnam                  182859    550018    192156       |    223452    477021        9690    170736     63577         .    171230    264952    390991

 Mexico                    72787    216980     34948       |    137056     42753         659     11290      9739    126103      6673      9896     47036

 France                   101299     60011     51286       |    117382     39404       44604     20843     62644     54728       181     34416      5138

 Hong Kong                  1628      5392     28969       |     45850     17462       17907     17780      4756     44727      6117      1163     15693

 Egypt                     24191     31191      9069       |     32071     15588        6729      2340      1651         .     30420     10008      9312

 Italy                     15148     27646     19084       |     29072     22473        6765      9386      8863     21807      9261      4800     11831

 _ASEAN                   664574   1159463   1118983       |   1995109    971423      239409    528391   1795894    268562    317165    419978    628162

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            48067      1839     24462       |     24876     16330       10323     11827     16470     14168      8742      1880      5708

 _CBI                          0       596      6524       |         .         .           .      6524         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA-DR                     0       596         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0       400       |         .     28207           .       400         .         .     28207         .         .