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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 600:  TEXTURED FILAMENT YARN
                                                      Data in Kg..

(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                   7710358   9053052   7224494       |   3312362   4285387     1588530   1544724   1654510   1466226   1583750   1966959   2272863

 Mexico                  1314284   1284448   1138456       |   1210676   1385206      481805    356338    592237    510420    562685    653188   1054130

 China                    321739    257622    437700       |    390280    399663      192750    139097    167891    138067    185340    181120    192706

 Taiwan                   421504    392813    427407       |    388565    446032       80028    257207    222216    187258    167183    177163    205850

 India                    292882    499092    361050       |    263724    997009      187034    110338    140631    124687    236966    494336    390066

 Malaysia                 238112    230200    263571       |    232148    252372       37038    168900    167368     32215    120090    136385     38191

 Indonesia                323506    708039    365285       |    207066    377783      185365    134897     70355    132876    134897     89961    197501

 Korea, South             139119     85304    376433       |    178817     85125      154050    133915    119032    125200     33910     32459     18756

 Italy                    170142    141788    236888       |    121481     79563       80366    132273      8266     94602     23818     52702     48161

 Thailand                 210139    386741    103259       |     94692     53515       65361     31630     46505     58082     13850     22807     24185

 Germany                   38512     51233      2098       |     52167     13520        2061        42     19184     32538     12649     13195       361

 Egypt                     42820     42890     41480       |     43380     43740       14480     27000     14490     14520     14370     29060     28180

 Slovenia                  15312     14111     28932       |     29191     14230       14751         .     28513       224     14635     14230      6270

 Belgium                   46122     43829     15153       |     22544     66245           .     15153     10224     12320     21628     35059     30443

 Vietnam                   19783      5401     14788       |     18810       425       14266       522     18810         .       425         .         .

 Colombia                      0         0         0       |     15735         .           .         .         .         .     15735         .         .

 _ASEAN                   791540   1347900    746903       |    552716    684095      302030    335949    303038    223173    269262    249153    259877

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |     15735       118           .         .         .         .     15735       118         .

 _CBI                          0     11561     13937       |      5763      5452        3557     10380      5298       465         .      4554      1395

 _CAFTA-DR                     0     11561     13937       |      5763      5452        3557     10380      5298       465         .      4554      1395