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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                  May 15, 2012
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |               By Category               |
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                                           Category 899:  OTH SILK / VEG BLEND MANUFACTURES
                                                      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  (2012)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 Country                  4/2011    5/2011    3/2012       |   4/2012    5/2012        2/18      3/03      3/17      3/31      4/14      4/28      5/12
                                                                 (P)       (P)          (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)
 World                   1284216   1182217   1483549       |   1386522    779363      583077    607528    544213    721316    674552    667069    823999

 China                    443617    468242    252617       |    444072    138983      154418    127079    100166    150988    175465    243140    164449

 Israel                   330220    293590    602859       |    304427    294289      246061    308097    199002    230459    131388    173039    294289

 Italy                      2878     25117    263700       |    235870     47497        3713     33659     67163    206427    147640     73839     61889

 Portugal                 268864     57417    181760       |    140290    229403       97482     56790     81755     76777     64986     75293    229414

 India                    104567    203104     73577       |     92621     32898       50056     25008     26803     26616     51704     39285     34529

 Germany                   26664     14639     29734       |     57197       550        4564      2195     24052      5592     38680     18511       532

 Taiwan                     3075     31224     14851       |     24659     10247        7287      8397      5593      6227     21145      3463     10298

 Vietnam                     521       638       315       |     22897       100         572        74       108        85      2623     20010       364

 Finland                      31       233        69       |     19481        85          57        82         .        23     19475         .        85

 Pakistan                   1457        15      4602       |      9360      6792        3044       625      4602         .       102      9258      6792

 Hungary                    1060       451       639       |      7309       917           .      1383       639         .      7309         .       917

 Mexico                    12016      8221     15833       |      6385      3167        4322      3542     10994      4785      3990      2392      3170

 Belgium                    3328      4049      5782       |      3287      1949        1672      1085      3013      2887      1810       912      2415

 Hong Kong                  1352       100        35       |      2923        20         424         .         .         .        33       405      2505

 Korea, South              28432     42991     11554       |      2915      6895        5540     12156      6293      5261      2656       259      6895

 _ASEAN                     3169      2179      4275       |     24940      1289        1602      2592      2305       279      3974     20701      1554

 _CBI                         36        22        13       |       769        12           .     15873         .        14       731        38        12

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)               17        55       135       |       664        27          16        63        30       123       239       425        27

 _CAFTA-DR                    26        19        13       |       569        12           .     15873         .        14       550        19        12

 _SUB-SAHARA               13496       360        65       |        21        30          78       146        32        59         .        10        33