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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 618:  WOVEN ARTIFICIAL FILAMENT FAB.
                                                      Data in M2..

(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                   1520018   1387316   1136252       |   1496675   1626992      380128    384778   1013536    656181    400270    821754   1368938

 Korea, South             820625    660394    430651       |    637297    208441      225466     76478    580626    167907     89096    149445    228204

 China                    232682    248827    277745       |    598198   1145539       58835    206416    267716    362594    224022    550610   1034955

 Italy                     56407     69465    119358       |    113844     80676       40209     37383     67336     48745     56020     19536     28906

 Japan                    131111    127460     87094       |     64386    118983       36681     33879     45972     39227      6603     66986     53537

 India                     27889     25945      2640       |     34224     15261        1591      1049     22726     11150      3863      3486      9792

 Germany                   11485      9899      2307       |     19950      1784        3076       106     10516      3865      5569      1483       301

 Lithuania                     0         0         0       |     18266         .           .         .         .     18266         .         .         .

 Taiwan                    14173     37936     41434       |      8926     44356        1560     16759     17541      4101     13439     23459      8800

 Turkey                      690       500      1251       |       656      1691         469        56       682        57       319       329      1311

 Mexico                      469      1225       279       |       279         .           .         .       279         .         .         .         .

 Portugal                      0         0        22       |       163       459          41        15        28         .       250       339         .

 United Kingdom               30      5213       943       |       158      1769          26       375        87        49        97       163      1606

 France                      719       928       767       |       153      2206          90       685        17        88       268      1622       629

 Brazil                        .         .         .       |        75         .           .         .         .        75         .         .         .

 Spain                      5198       347         0       |        38       219           .         .        10         .        28       106       146

 _ASEAN                        0      3180         0       |         .       686           .         .         .         .       685         .         .

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

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

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .