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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 331:  COTTON GLOVES AND MITTENS
                                                      Data in Dpr.

(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                   2901761   3906011   3565692       |   3088673   3250178     1277428   1706733   1498198   1679598   1321967   1532729   1527052

 China                   1953466   2555304   2182269       |   1951677   1885546      642684   1154223    998375   1106879    895346    817240    880096

 Pakistan                 320912    558952    480864       |    353162    477884      250246    178808    152861    185817    122189    226058    226925

 Philippines              131289    161522    194311       |    176901    114873      109593     52320     65070    106712     74082     47111     78929

 Mexico                   158195    139502    201173       |    157547    155683       59430     97856    127324     73744     25606     76946    101866

 Indonesia                 82960    279757    187809       |    136000    213356       98918     88895     26550    109450     34280    143626     35450

 Korea, South              72464     27552     81137       |    116171     84461        1941     63166     37346     37966     52414     46660     38350

 Bangladesh                29450     23250     24900       |     58974     48078       24900     26630         .       973     58001     48077     20976

 Sri Lanka                 50216     46962     22992       |     41623     48786        4704     18198     34668      2439      9916     41136      6984

 Taiwan                    29226      2150     82181       |     33824     73388       58475       650     38800     19100     40823     20780     44924

 Honduras                  27924     28809     26477       |     33135     42038        7153     15025     11174     15984      5977      8441     33597

 Guatemala                 10395     12419     20569       |     13606      2286        9047     10667      3900      9244       462      1470      7486

 India                         7     49028     50184       |     10396     55098          95        94         .     10396        95     55000         .

 Hong Kong                     0       228     10041       |      4133     23665       10041        20      1480        20      2633        95     25393

 Germany                       0       150         6       |       416        12           .        25        59       403        10         .         .

 Vietnam                     168         0        33       |       287        62           .         .         .       251        38         .        59

 _ASEAN                   248363    460445    382153       |    313309    352171      208514    141220     91742    216414    108400    190737    139470

 _CBI                      38319     41228     47046       |     46741     44324       16200     25692     15074     25228      6439      9911     41083

 _CAFTA-DR                 38319     41228     47046       |     46741     44324       16200     25692     15074     25228      6439      9911     41083

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)               60        65        41       |       200        26          40         .        54       137        39         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0       127       100       |        65       100           .        25        50        15         .         .       100