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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 627:  MMF SHEETING 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                    170362    476447    595610       |    251179    639553      308950    237032     49183    153225    428007     35106    242444

 China                     44143    315478    405403       |    120025    553492      143254    237032     13342    112676    368075     22455    169354

 Turkey                    18055     47408     51507       |     54528     34277       44229         .     30041     24487         .       172     34105

 Bahrain                   30995     86114     12084       |     37005     36576           .         .         .     12239     24766         .     36576

 Pakistan                      0     22098     85249       |     30183      2286       85249         .         .         .     30183         .      2286

 Mexico                        0         0         0       |      4587         .           .         .         .         .      4587         .         .

 Korea, South                  0         0     35641       |      3478       916       35641         .       112      3366       336       580         .

 Belgium                       0       686         0       |       709       535           .         .       709         .         .       535         .

 India                       734         0      5399       |       303      9120         569         .      4832       301         .      9081        39

 Italy                       266       289       319       |       281        68           .         .        72       152        60         .        84

 Switzerland                   0         0         0       |        76         .           .         .        76         .         .         .         .

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

 Dominican Republic            .         .         .       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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

 United Kingdom               30         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Netherlands                   0       150         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                    74989         0         0       |         .      2283           .         .         .         .         .      2283         .

 _CBI                          .         .         .       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA-DR                     .         .         .       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

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