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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 607:  OTHER STAPLE FIBER 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                   1204796   1005206   1186136       |    668739    743333      614447    446649    378972    269203    232159    332330    428515

 China                    461277    350234    374965       |    208624    233639      312198    102178     99213     79222    103173    115844    147590

 India                    128184    131075    165073       |    182686    181702       70775     78901    116833     37512     47465    106333     74997

 Indonesia                171260    221625    368071       |    168891    189226      137277    216206    129681     96128     47934     83096    106829

 Vietnam                   13537       129     54351       |     36810      8352       35640         .         .     18099     27063         .         .

 Mexico                   127615     43797     25393       |     26641     35322       12441      8389     12500     14141      1807     12037     21478

 Thailand                 103978     25488     58741       |     21600     18647       18554     40187         .     21600         .         .     18647

 Korea, South             105641     68456     27009       |     16511     66345       27009         .     16511         .        67     14489     51789

 Taiwan                     3679     47238      3395       |      3649      4287           .       129         .      1819      1830        81      4206

 Turkey                        0      4664         0       |      1671         .           .         .      1601        70         .         .         .

 Italy                     12890      1334      2360       |      1392       526          79       571      1261       364        18       400       544

 Germany                     189        46        96       |        99         .          21        75         .        99         .         .         .

 Bulgaria                      0         0         0       |        70         .           .         .         .        70         .         .         .

 France                       18        12      1572       |        55      1024         233        11      1328        55         .         .      1023

 Japan                         8       108        40       |        24       133          43         .         .        24         .        46        87

 United Kingdom              244       223        72       |        16         .           .         .        44         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                   308257    281743    481163       |    227301    216225      191471    256393    129681    135827     74997     83096    125476

 _CBI                          0         0       176       |         .         .         176         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA-DR                     0         0       176       |         .         .         176         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              440         0         0       |         .        66           .         .         .         .         .         .        66