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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 432:  WOOL HOSIERY
                                                      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                     83901     97408    143072       |     64121     54257       95316     44388     23175     36080     21321     30161     38449

 China                     17873     21792     72923       |     22388     16991       53926     18240     13855     14971      4965     12519     17060

 Korea, South              16665      9369     21812       |     19964     13648       12676      7831      1917     10326      8062      5150      8766

 Taiwan                     2590      4084      7411       |      7375       279        5287      2380        70       979      6538        71        17

 Italy                     12916      3014      6016       |      4103      9775        9647      3452      2719      3517       448      4781      5167

 Mexico                     3958      3140      9572       |      3554      1680        4034      5459       979      2672       637       403      1115

 Peru                      14598     18574      4007       |      2443       196         691      3135      1852       696       180        69      1873

 South Africa               1903      3851       997       |      1660      4967         732       203       582      1196        21      4635       333

 United Kingdom             2030      2445      1408       |       787      1399         589       922       590       529        91       634       733

 Thailand                   1084         0      2365       |       622       729         983       903        90       532        41       688         .

 Pakistan                   3695     24340         0       |       380      1371        1000         .         .       380         .         .      1370

 Portugal                   1158        42       530       |       113       147        1994        34        69        37        17       130        13

 Syria                        19        48        18       |       111        30          19        33        19        92         .        27         .

 Nepal                        50       134        70       |        81        16          37        65        75        17        10         .         .

 Bolivia                      11         0        66       |        69         .           .        75        46        21         .         .         .

 Australia                    35         0         0       |        65         .           .         .         .         .        64         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            14609     18699      4385       |      2515       211        1001      3220      1905       718       183        69      1930

 _SUB-SAHARA                1903      3851       997       |      1660      4968         732       203       582      1196        22      4635       333

 _ASEAN                     1577      1036      2669       |       633       913         987       912        95       535        46       869         .

 _CBI                          4         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA-DR                     4         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .