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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 632:  MMF HOSIERY
                                                      Data in Dpr.

(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                  10297150  11176238  13650955       |  12026823  15171184     5565366   5098960   6583831   4949306   5281532   7709010   7050442

 China                   8143487   8995856  10338156       |   9608773  12995725     4378116   3534592   5197042   3837668   4569758   6576564   6041457

 Honduras                 133705     92737    933295       |    505715    467958      345811    521655    343744    260659      4755    311243    224627

 Taiwan                   390029    618680    303792       |    351825    416089      160862    113031    229232    139988    144473    195391    177423

 El Salvador              119269    132688    395454       |    271587    232392      141129    144313    182616    135292     65459    122514    139574

 Pakistan                 129071    184342    192883       |    258480    238459       63103     67451    130906     85352     98674    173866     42149

 Korea, South             195313    202514    537069       |    185423    109895      125759    328354    125518     51897     72072     46392     63966

 Ecuador                  102080    113468     69853       |    168459     18083       48146         .      5084     94833     68542     18083         .

 Mexico                   264069    175813    243627       |    162653    153598      129208    102629     81832     82802     61226     19868    129329

 Cambodia                  15605     47914    211783       |    117064    102537       84781     82551     36419     70535     34126     66473     80588

 India                     86444     90090    106797       |     73270    101922       25271     52657     70514     25807     22638     44327     42979

 Italy                    220692    226878     76293       |     53478     39440       13085     49147     25689     21081     18264      9874     19945

 Thailand                  42043      9572     17549       |     49101     12322        1712     15796     18546     23633      9550      5484      5621

 Costa Rica                45650     21064     48514       |     43590     30418       16521     25374     36967     22221     22376         .     14405

 Lebanon                   16890     12760     16240       |     26200     38815           .     16240     26200         .      8949     29866         .

 Bulgaria                   7138      6022     17160       |     25966     31710        3676      2652     11802     10208     11900     16972     10737

 _CBI                     300206    248779   1377413       |    820892    730768      503536    691420    563327    418172     92590    433757    378606

 _CAFTA-DR                300206    248779   1377413       |    820892    730768      503536    691420    563327    418172     92590    433757    378606

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)           183680    227065     73633       |    206036    136510       52392      4022     11482    128505    106877     75942     22746

 _ASEAN                   139624     97435    269868       |    184247    140837       87541    112316     70967    102769     55925     77522    101414

 _SUB-SAHARA               13121     11801     10911       |     12706      9813        5042       416     10773      7411      5854      2471      1525