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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 800:  SILK BLENDS OR NON-CTN VEG FIB YRN
                                                      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                     33664     29500     74413       |     56497     58936        6050     48810     52934      8448     27107     28953     30690

 Mexico                        0         0     17933       |     32675         .           .         .     32675         .         .         .     16700

 China                     15603     16813     52769       |     16868     38401        5320     46882     14582      6988     18485     17637      6687

 Hungary                      11      4112       753       |      3080      2450          69       612      1036         .      2882         .      1685

 Germany                      63         0         0       |      1481         .           .         .      1481         .         .         .         .

 Italy                      5246      1088       146       |       754      5869          27       109        53       648       820      5035       103

 United Kingdom              124        72       240       |       650      2601           .       241       375       275      2516        55        74

 Belgium                   10613       412       925       |       426      1074         118       666      1670       295       727       149      3844

 Japan                       461      1142       847       |       224      1518          67         .       784       210        10      1508        80

 Brazil                        2        10         8       |       106        36           .         .       103         .        22         .        43

 France                       54        40         0       |       104        12           .         .         .         .       104         .        12

 Sweden                      139       343       166       |        33       284         112        42        55         .         .       209        75

 Switzerland                  21       136        58       |        33         .          47        13        25         .         .         .         .

 India                       626        74       273       |        28       178         242         .        53         .         .        86       297

 Romania                     103      3160         0       |        24        14          17         .         .        17        10         .       326

 Canada                        0       215         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)               12         0         0       |         .      3051           .         .         .         .         .      3051         .

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