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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 642:  MMF SKIRTS
                                                      Data in Doz.

(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                    462814    583771    595044       |    680659    924951      179804    320985    289630    309714    330826    436301    462385

 China                    218499    261912    324146       |    335808    449571       92605    182049    143505    149931    171131    190245    243036

 Vietnam                   67435     92939     86669       |     94441    135937       21183     48002     46636     43059     35940     68358     78860

 Indonesia                 62029     70985     53082       |     64832     77528       15295     24092     29001     27717     29311     42046     34005

 Cambodia                  18729     25248     19777       |     53038     58474        6245     10902     20891     26317     22634     33942     22985

 Philippines                7988     13244     21374       |     26135     41687       10945      9214     11129     15246      9276     22926     15773

 Mexico                     6203     23204     15816       |     22346     20144        5906      9939      3819     10335     11472      9934     12829

 India                     16514     23768     18213       |     20029     51182        6960      6652      8436      8221     13302     25822     20134

 Guatemala                 11505     18058     15149       |     13973     15365        8164     11359      5171      7731      5960      6576      6801

 Taiwan                    14218      6738      3514       |      9326      4857         467      2201       656      4912      6151      1422      2857

 Sri Lanka                  1245      4627      6302       |      7523      6628        3365      1890      5315      1546      1836      1522      4278

 Bangladesh                16629      7705      9324       |      5490     17046        1553      7714      2012      2027      4131     12304      3596

 Malaysia                   2966      4208      1009       |      3462      5705         481       378      1162      1171      1939      2317      4184

 Dominican Republic         1524       730      2096       |      3204      1178        1003       218      1348      1447      1523       510        40

 Jordan                        0      3008       934       |      2672     12431         431       506      1637       138      6093      6856      1418

 El Salvador                2036      1501      2131       |      2495      6807        1808       953       999      1503      2212      3830       970

 _ASEAN                   160871    209037    183381       |    245367    326966       54366     93397    112317    115553    102430    171660    159704

 _CBI                      16264     20752     19930       |     20259     23786       11039     12822      7811     10888      9961     11174      8019

 _CAFTA-DR                 16264     20752     19647       |     20235     23785       11006     12703      7708     10888      9938     11174      8018

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              650      1395       387       |       974       369          46        49       302       510       337        85       287

 _SUB-SAHARA                2930      2428       634       |       678      1736           .       638        70       521        88        80      1659