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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 314:  COTTON POPLIN / BROADCLOTH FAB.
                     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        103740031 126401290  126401290  118441103     -6.30 126401290  121502792  118057752  118441103      -6.30  100.00

 CHINA P       63547604  66985136   66985136   52392294    -21.79  66985136   54496940   53310210   52392294     -21.79   44.23

 PAKISTN       18232398  29198483   29198483   36849763     26.20  29198483   37004296   35418897   36849763      26.20   31.11

 INDNSIA        6637054  10295827   10295827   11462395     11.33  10295827   11448491   11353162   11462395      11.33    9.68

 CHINA T        2714082   2751135    2751135    6260104    127.55   2751135    6803276    6531658    6260104     127.55    5.29

 THAILND        1022578   3995638    3995638    2211645    -44.65   3995638    2770228    2582210    2211645     -44.65    1.87

 KOR REP        2448208   2342678    2342678    1764947    -24.66   2342678    1933000    1802728    1764947     -24.66    1.49

 JAPAN          2621054   2320101    2320101    1570449    -32.31   2320101    1831027    1764492    1570449     -32.31    1.33

 INDIA           950369   1311925    1311925    1381569      5.31   1311925    1216114    1306015    1381569       5.31    1.17

 ARAB EM        1225997    431904     431904    1294253    199.66    431904     740933     946147    1294253     199.66    1.09

 MEXICO         1165118   1152866    1152866     754762    -34.53   1152866     690973     624508     754762     -34.53    0.64

 GERMANY         497483    966033     966033     602853    -37.59    966033     485523     585622     602853     -37.59    0.51

 BAHRAIN         870248   3080371    3080371     372608    -87.90   3080371     444926     259668     372608     -87.90    0.31


 _ASEAN         7920349  14479694   14479694   13961936     -3.58  14479694   14473268   14203337   13961936      -3.58   11.79