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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 438:  WOOL KNIT SHIRTS/BLOUSES
                                                      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                     96953     66010    162480       |     66971     35314       66702     73199     40766     24572     18313     16175     12805

 China                     64320     38436    145270       |     54944     28764       60058     64648     34811     19873     14683     13488      9344

 Vietnam                    9008        30      3128       |      2947      1287         882      1416      1970       203      1032       262       778

 Italy                      1717      1609      3275       |      2038      1699        1798       955       911      1030       794       714       831

 Indonesia                    10        13         0       |      1961        44          25         .       872      1090        23        21         .

 Mexico                    13133     21241      1562       |       698       482        1368       213       297       270       311       202       355

 Turkey                      229       197       411       |       651       356         307       290       354       308       175       204        62

 Romania                     330       254       495       |       552       345          86       295       362       250       153       112       161

 Peru                         92        99       552       |       490        95         186       388       119       368        22        44        67

 Hungary                       0         0         4       |       455         .           .         .        11        33       412         .         .

 India                         1       696       115       |       323       320          36       126        93       214        32       278        28

 Sri Lanka                    62       204       842       |       200       154         125        90        43       118        81        83        73

 Hong Kong                   646        89       326       |       197       256         136        33        81       141        22       100       147

 Spain                        93        18        83       |       181        20          36        43        98        80        54         .         .

 United Kingdom               65        72       256       |       173       166          63        76       160        67        30        36       126

 Portugal                    249       173        59       |       149        41          53        64        88        51        46        12        38

 _ASEAN                    13252       825      4664       |      4945      1536         942      2925      2846      1320      1092       420       882

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              115        99       556       |       499       211         186       392       119       376        23       103       124

 _CBI                         99         0        78       |       110        35           .        42        32        27        51         .        55

 _CAFTA-DR                    99         0        78       |       110        35           .        42        32        27        51         .        55

 _SUB-SAHARA                  46         5        59       |        44         .           .         .        80         .        18         .         .