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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 301:  COMBED COTTON YARN
                     Data in Kg..,  8.50 M2 per Kg. . 

                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         24623402  27337729   27337729   19824970    -27.48  27337729   18994041   19705647   19824970     -27.48  100.00

 KOR REP        7703643   8807460    8807460    5449279    -38.13   8807460    4599188    5070548    5449279     -38.13   27.49

 INDIA          2952126   2701074    2701074    3372678     24.86   2701074    2962297    3185914    3372678      24.86   17.01

 MEXICO         3004700   4711048    4711048    2433164    -48.35   4711048    2851498    2651642    2433164     -48.35   12.27

 INDNSIA        2218650   3043199    3043199    2309987    -24.09   3043199    2317671    2311436    2309987     -24.09   11.65

 VIETNAM         707908   1756112    1756112    2191550     24.80   1756112    2070768    2207074    2191550      24.80   11.05

 THAILND        3871845   2006565    2006565    1389914    -30.73   2006565    1385965    1548166    1389914     -30.73    7.01

 PAKISTN        2828298   1540807    1540807    1282945    -16.74   1540807    1330966    1275662    1282945     -16.74    6.47

 EGYPT           548760   1026111    1026111     516998    -49.62   1026111     643636     562975     516998     -49.62    2.61

 CHINA P         230260   1361408    1361408     489101    -64.07   1361408     452235     492445     489101     -64.07    2.47

 CANADA          135333    142859     142859      73088    -48.84    142859      86470      79268      73088     -48.84    0.37


 _ASEAN         6798403   6805876    6805876    5949999    -12.58   6805876    5830690    6125224    5949999     -12.58   30.01