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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                              January 19, 2012
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |  By Category,  Preliminary 12/2011 Data |
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(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.


                                           Category 219:  DUCK FABRIC
                     Data in M2..,  1.00 M2 per M2. . 

                Calendar Years               Year-to-Date              Year-Endings                                YE 12/2011
 Country        2009       2010      12/2010    12/2011  % Change   12/2010    10/2011    11/2011    12/2011   % Change % Share

                                                   (P)                                                  (P)

 WORLD         46694706  52455207   52455207   41632114    -20.63  52455207   44051391   42940042   41632114     -20.63  100.00

 INDIA         15578272  20382448   20382448   19040160     -6.59  20382448   19939610   19350096   19040160      -6.59   45.73

 PAKISTN       10514474   5967250    5967250    5418107     -9.20   5967250    5611139    5533305    5418107      -9.20   13.01

 TURKMEN        3615130   4385082    4385082    4467612      1.88   4385082    4530619    4873061    4467612       1.88   10.73

 ARAB EM        2732503   3466562    3466562    3627339      4.64   3466562    3410399    3476237    3627339       4.64    8.71

 INDNSIA        2258340   4692437    4692437    3300772    -29.66   4692437    4043803    3493343    3300772     -29.66    7.93

 CHINA P        1930619   2454397    2454397    1918628    -21.83   2454397    1941030    1889306    1918628     -21.83    4.61

 MEXICO          594167    968354     968354     952741     -1.61    968354    1138578    1008846     952741      -1.61    2.29

 CHINA T        2141414   1527905    1527905     679931    -55.50   1527905     754578     641496     679931     -55.50    1.63

 CANADA          945306   1235973    1235973     568980    -53.97   1235973     782912     695499     568980     -53.97    1.37

 TURKEY          450798   2499823    2499823     536195    -78.55   2499823     369287     456037     536195     -78.55    1.29

 THAILND        2032434   2277977    2277977     403346    -82.29   2277977     437625     431115     403346     -82.29    0.97

 BAHRAIN        3198798   2055631    2055631      13904    -99.32   2055631     349701     349701      13904     -99.32    0.03


 _ASEAN         4292474   6972203    6972203    3712098    -46.76   6972203    4489408    3932438    3712098     -46.76    8.92