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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 313:  COTTON SHEETING FABRIC
                                                      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                  21777391  21322621  19499172       |  21936432  20160534     7656249   9299208   9480688  10086750  10146236   9566400   9043996

 China                   9469953   9115740   8376547       |   7149189   8005015     3026101   3717784   3322547   2714292   4028821   3457923   3846921

 Pakistan                4728995   4086953   4415851       |   6410380   5282619     1536669   2735984   2776010   3018550   2731470   2521818   1934870

 Korea, South            4412029   5129787   3924305       |   5870914   3886616     1602688   1801940   2192921   3154179   2066057   2295021   1768122

 Japan                    817445    828905    847689       |   1026485    722036      515918    283903    243317    557869    455878    269527    370984

 India                    438647    179813    653098       |    553898    690290      195481    377682     88069    336247    251353    327700    372577

 Indonesia                526502    834047    661331       |    545447    779183      416166     96940    521360    189065    241688    329927    562588

 Thailand                 793529    523491    389153       |    203550    415532      236118    202873    244282     36663    169838    176773    103896

 Germany                  135226     93013    107609       |     57529    116046       75349     34721     48969      6079    155102     11786        43

 Turkey                   126716    100368     56040       |     40781     55623       19230     24264     17858     33097     21489     18709     28648

 Brazil                     4157     10139      6652       |     28587      5656         250      3268      3213     25373         .        88     13052

 Italy                     16396    216435     11059       |     12275      8670         898      7201      5690      6559      3038      3734      4957

 Bahrain                       0         0         0       |     12105     21025           .         .         .         .     12105     21025         .

 Portugal                   1371     12858        88       |      7684     13151           .         .      4551      3133         .       927     13191

 United Kingdom            13695      3709      7490       |      6787      5417         775      1231      7262       841      3769      2247      2463

 France                     1946       299      8173       |      3549     22931        5742      2413       862      2718        30     11856     11066

 _ASEAN                  1323761   1481386   1050484       |    748997   1194716      652284    299813    765642    225728    411526    506701    666484

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |      1558         .           .         .      1284         .       274         .         .

 _CAFTA-DR                     0         0         0       |      1558         .           .         .      1284         .       274         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              600         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0      2396       |         .         .           .      2396         .         .         .         .         .