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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 218:  FABRICS OF YARNS OF DIFF. COLORS
                                                      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                   8263679   3520764   3455942       |   2964409   2978061     2371362   1521550   1037055   1552453   1213807   1460436   1666345

 China                   1153919   1443567   1657909       |   1202079   1277597     1722740    729930    437772    726802    445631    559922    916174

 India                    292206    663910    425488       |    424216    592274      224868    188048     97778    303149     59501    425911    170026

 Italy                   5765140    407515    485238       |    297965    285674      154544    223516    146681    119595     93937    147358    128756

 Mexico                   195495    111093    128619       |    206909    112319       51791     29124     43512     31408    183476      9634    116958

 Turkey                   228814    334722    122399       |    200522    151375       58686     44437     41115    119441     94127     62767    100694

 Pakistan                  15225    103904    120808       |    151632     69089        1272    103294     56296     55311     88535     34664     33715

 Taiwan                    96034    129443     52379       |    133577     99385       17750     26301     43650     84790     33869     68657     36370

 Japan                     75755     29612     46011       |     76281    136705       19891     17538     30324     43541     87828     26644     44947

 Malaysia                      0         0       141       |     49106         .           .       141         .         .     49106         .         .

 Portugal                  35668     49604     50293       |     44272     25027         963     29857     31835     13127      4954     16945      8325

 Thailand                  71048      5885     80350       |     42681     54518         348     31701     43191       320       417     52175      2605

 Brazil                    27856     46132     18987       |     35104     16098        5636      7891     25084     16571         .      8516     10726

 Spain                     96157     42671     64360       |     23445     29310       21380      4550      6082      3831     39132      2770      5060

 France                    20420      8713     18305       |     18919     14142        3155      9021     12176      4858      7653     10092      5976

 Guatemala                   334         0      4148       |     11881      4350       35469       323        36     11845         .      2754      1596

 _ASEAN                    71048     16034     80491       |     95538     61645         348     31842     44993      2269     56650     52175      2605

 _CBI                        334     11511     10984       |     18553      4350       35469      7159      6708     11845         .      2754      1596

 _CAFTA-DR                   334     11511     10984       |     18553      4350       35469      7159      6708     11845         .      2754      1596

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             3825         0       396       |      4616      5655           .       364        29      4587        48        12      5595

 _SUB-SAHARA               39415       277     22824       |      1432      1153         114       512       919       417       325       750       240