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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 342:  COTTON SKIRTS
                                                      Data in Doz.

(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                    568324    964227    426325       |    697347   1043751      123679    237309    310993    315328    319459    471670    646393

 China                    237743    385576    171705       |    306904    423118       53547     93291    134208    151361    132005    190075    240945

 Indonesia                 61040     96013     34212       |     81787    111438       17274     16828     27296     41085     30898     49142     98845

 India                     39016    130698     37774       |     75265    122915        9628     16740     26239     34782     33366     49354     76237

 Vietnam                   51142    100787     47823       |     67636    115599        9070     31264     22161     32081     42281     59250     86414

 Bangladesh                65447     69772     62706       |     60746     89693       15399     35169     38949     14849     41235     41552     34904

 Cambodia                  17438     35452     19289       |     39769     58430        4012      9925     17968     19092     10564      7637     59423

 Philippines               21571     28013      3644       |     13939     28254         706      3175      8272      3603      2802     23784      5763

 El Salvador               10524      9328      9746       |     12226      9426        5371      3071      4170      2734      6855      5939      7035

 Sri Lanka                 14273     16374      7838       |     11990     22948        1021      3921      9379      2152      2921     13706     11840

 Thailand                   2290      9702      3554       |      5525     10744         227      6202      3606       690      3820      7816      2787

 Pakistan                   3439      2804      2213       |      4099     10683          91      1798       594      3604       461      7337      3509

 Guatemala                  2073      3919        57       |      3123      2473          51        24        74      2781       379      1010      1719

 Mexico                    10762      6745      1977       |      1766      8146        1264      4069      1013       411      3201      3527      2605

 Bahrain                       0         0      1541       |      1453      2492        1541       353         .       322      1131         .      2492

 Italy                       706       945       937       |      1160      1621         376       553       484       638       447       701       928

 _ASEAN                   160892    297824    119047       |    209455    328818       31719     75686     90690     96821     93258    147780    254687

 _CBI                      21039     27936     12916       |     15492     13171        6002      3396      4355      5545      7492      7475      9478

 _CAFTA-DR                 20950     27936     12900       |     15474     13156        6002      3396      4355      5527      7492      7473      9464

 _SUB-SAHARA                2861     13016      1162       |      2100      5218        1070       256      1200      1063      1146      1870      2306

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              380       824       189       |       866      1191         148        27       111       627       534       617       247