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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 620:  OTHER SYNTHETIC FILAMENT 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                  61441449  67539705  82065956       |  70975355  74172453    25579966  38628123  33466904  34209430  36115563  37434052  23445601

 India                  20593508  24456322  27843027       |  23379274  28621159     8635339  15448325  11046988  12590839  12895178  14237760   9115287

 China                  10184315   9199180  11750541       |  12117321  10120073     5085675   5225267   6838786   4875936   5170465   5622488   3590529

 Saudi Arabia            8832077   6946677   9425040       |   8750468  10364195     2302949   3181405   3295014   4471356   7291287   5552816   1187886

 Turkey                  2325194   5507895   9540647       |   8485494   5631670     3903399   2698702   3084214   3668526   2952401   1724348   3299263

 Taiwan                  3721324   4171691   4554057       |   3511993   4339541      864950   4901027   1723583   1807375   1249652   3031310    825007

 Vietnam                  198928   1565192   1902244       |   2180767   1904375      719235    961681   1403020    902977    734871    985948    734327

 United Arab Emirates    2014022   1572205   1640169       |   1947285   2722625      722969    951278    882505   1077956    985484   1287892    896379

 Korea, South            2786366   2843805   2139590       |   1934101   2797840      832011    892161   1088589    602503   1382996   1361633    811474

 United Kingdom           830578   1503061   1482198       |   1863483    418230      412031    390808   1013216    443112    846920    379627     42438

 Belgium                  953505   1496321    620920       |   1636668    822138      147985      2134    578333    749867    572597    268613    582248

 Greece                  1019115    845622   1833750       |   1417961   2111961      671472   1022824    442487    766496    432213    859383   1029343

 Mexico                  2090838   1540290    780821       |   1382144   1182576      389401    236829    763158    711939    447583    598085    274462

 Malaysia                 423612    848511    414330       |    572125    158660      260422    126536    137138    451847     99888     19911     49200

 Thailand                 792571    997813    395417       |    334287    868621       69989    216698    108994    307017    103949    613386    160673

 Brazil                   128278    143330     35641       |    289965    247543           .     33681         .    289965         .    247543     63341

 _ASEAN                  1576454   3429423   2849044       |   3239845   3116071     1184211   1305613   1668230   1718309   1016961   1662541   1089886

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0       450    109671       |     74749    189665           .     24268     85403     74648     57945     75404     58305

 _CBI                      79130     75244     14074       |     14673    103185       17567     70890     87959     14509         .     50670     52515

 _CAFTA-DR                 79130     75244     14074       |     14673    103185       17567     70890     87959     14509         .     50670     52515

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            50315    203783      5073       |      8359     21363         548      4456       122      8237     13794      7546        23