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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 315:  COTTON PRINTCLOTH 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                   4897177   5633242   5128252       |   4523713   6868938     1299024   1926971   2776118   2160617   2527348   2277378   3858075

 China                   2079096   1984903   1326218       |   2174989   3500334      363964    494122    458848   1562888   1369874    897108   1847373

 Pakistan                1240862    794877   1978214       |   1362133   2485117      508570    940659   1140438    384419    830163    613083   1698481

 Thailand                 790252   2297004    400631       |    372405    211160           .    271036    457237    143763         .    211160         .

 United Arab Emirates          0         0    363930       |    334942         .           .         .    527812         .    171060         .         .

 Japan                     35058    199390    138448       |     91124    239409        7462    141611     21299     36826     79890    186655     39329

 India                    422151     97543    716733       |     88946    298992      381564      8474     69223     19361       362    250025    146986

 Korea, South             287592    225746     63461       |     83682    130295       30617     25573     12758      3991     70343    117597    122626

 Italy                      3270        60      2604       |      5292        48           .      1802       184      1899      3209        42       897

 Spain                        63        15      5667       |      3180         .        5545         .       122      3180         .         .         .

 Netherlands                 293      1383      7625       |      2909      2713         454      7109       968      1179      1525      1037      1111

 Belgium                      78        73       776       |      1655        30           .         .        21      1654         .        13      1135

 Indonesia                 33378     16029    122192       |       878       235           .     35130     87062         .       887       226         .

 Germany                       0      1360       467       |       567        66           .       467         .       567         .         .        66

 Denmark                       .         .         .       |       426         .           .         .         .       426         .         .         .

 France                       17       619        78       |       337       235         656        32         .       337        18       204        13

 _ASEAN                   823630   2313033    522823       |    373283    211395           .    306166    544299    143763       887    211386         .

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .        29           .         .         .         .         .        29         .

 _CAFTA-DR                     .         .         .       |         .        29           .         .         .         .         .        29         .

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