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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 300:  CARDED COTTON YARN
                                                      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  (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                   1420438   1287935   1255974       |    863193   1274135      561343    418746    527503    499727    331126    704790    549926

 Mexico                   383125    422372    288912       |    300312    300249      115603     99665    180500    195821     13524    201448    109891

 Pakistan                 553419    547999    396440       |    248255    471586      145552    175117    111092    170463    134864    239302    267574

 India                    234941    113089    375394       |    174603    363719      202443     86439    103500     70743    107559    173695    153301

 Spain                     17210     34196     14689       |     62423     29404           .         .        61     32106     45233     14427     15456

 Thailand                  66136     15033     66211       |     41815     14027       22707     38304     21741     21174         .     13227       800

 Indonesia                     0         0     25724       |     26788         .       16251      9473     26888      2290         .         .         .

 United Kingdom                0         0      2950       |      2766      2762           .      1489      2775      1368         .      1392      1370

 China                      7734     34741     27766       |      2756     24360       31445         .      1536      2756     19519      4641       351

 Brazil                     1795      1478        81       |      1439      1769         199        81       209      1230         .      1769         .

 Vietnam                       0         0         0       |       907         .           .         .     78925       907         .         .         .

 Peru                          0         0        78       |       699       106           .       221         .       699         .        53        53

 Belgium                       0     21805         0       |       127         .           .         .         .         .       127         .         .

 Italy                     12693         0      6901       |       127     10522        7055       100       170        74     10300       189        37

 Japan                       565       480        15       |        80        79          15         .         .        80         .        79         .

 Sweden                       65       337       242       |        56       153         209        34        56         .         .        24       129

 _ASEAN                    88146     15033     91936       |     69510     14027       38958     47777    127555     24371         .     13227       800

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0        78       |       699       106           .       221         .       699         .        53        53

 _CBI                          0       542         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA-DR                     0       542         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .