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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 626:  MMF PRINTCLOTH STAP/FIL
                                                      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                   1204109    564032    761636       |     77057    164396      252879    253513    292652      1302    150955     32079    285908

 China                    192331     31580     47070       |     62097    146708       23087      7036     54604       987    136297     14922      1995

 Korea, South                  0         0         0       |     14205       210         759         .         .         .     14313       102         .

 Italy                         0        52         0       |       385       346           .         .       240         .       344         .       174

 Spain                        56        45         0       |       203         .           .         .         .       203         .         .         .

 Germany                       0         0         0       |        59         .           .         .         .        57         .         .         .

 Belgium                       0         0         0       |        42       120          10         .         .        42         .        42       108

 Switzerland                1484         0        40       |        29         .           .        40        29         .         .         .         .

 Turkey                        0         0         0       |        25         .           .         .        25         .         .         .         .

 Philippines                   .         .         .       |        12         .           .         .         .        12         .         .         .

 Canada                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Colombia                      0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Argentina                     0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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

 France                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .       271

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

 _ASEAN                        0         0         0       |        12         .           .         .         .        12         .         .         .

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