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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 621:  IMPRESSION FABRIC
                                                      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                      5261      8667     78879       |     60931     42055        1353     46174     16809     53425      4697     23609     18246

 Korea, South                  0         0     17030       |     37656     28345           .      8150         .     37656         .     10712     17631

 China                      3657      5197     51434       |     20107      3998          55     37769     13637     15617      4528      3960         .

 Taiwan                        0        73         9       |      1630       760           .         .      1489       150        98        65       603

 Thailand                      0         0         0       |       978         .           .         .       978         .         .         .         .

 United Kingdom                0         0       527       |       527         .           .         .       527         .         .         .         .

 Spain                         0         0         0       |        31         .           .         .        31         .         .         .         .

 Canada                     1249      1430      9598       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Mexico                        0         0        13       |         .        20           .        11         .         .         .         .         .

 Sweden                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Netherlands                   0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Belgium                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Luxembourg                    0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 France                      252         0        28       |         .        89           .        28         .         .        66        23         .

 Germany                       0        84       209       |         .      8600        1293       179        30         .         .      8600         .

 Austria                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                        0         0         0       |       978         .           .         .       978         .         .         .         .