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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 345:  COTTON SWEATERS
                     Data in Doz., 30.80 M2 per Doz . 

                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          9268176  10178444   10178444    9440466     -7.25  10178444    9548076    9336183    9440466      -7.25  100.00

 CHINA P        7919385   8791303    8791303    8490944     -3.42   8791303    8514650    8374139    8490944      -3.42   89.94

 BNGLDSH         341229    483752     483752     324518    -32.92    483752     359485     339486     324518     -32.92    3.44

 INDNSIA         184668    209531     209531      99826    -52.36    209531      92386      95666      99826     -52.36    1.06

 VIETNAM          94514     88630      88630      77560    -12.49     88630      82903      76187      77560     -12.49    0.82

 PAKISTN          44590    107455     107455      60484    -43.71    107455      61513      61822      60484     -43.71    0.64

 JORDAN           54853     76843      76843      53744    -30.06     76843      61480      53360      53744     -30.06    0.57

 CHINA T          33570     40614      40614      49977     23.05     40614      48989      51890      49977      23.05    0.53

 INDIA            49471     30691      30691      38154     24.32     30691      39448      39653      38154      24.32    0.40

 CAMBOD           46945     70946      70946      35228    -50.35     70946      64451      35683      35228     -50.35    0.37

 PERU             31667     28303      28303      35116     24.07     28303      36017      34786      35116      24.07    0.37

 THAILND         146767     83801      83801      33504    -60.02     83801      43208      33883      33504     -60.02    0.35

 HG KONG         114142     52628      52628      32656    -37.95     52628      34448      35340      32656     -37.95    0.35

 MAURIT            1501      2670       2670       1562    -41.50      2670       1916       1635       1562     -41.50    0.02

 LESOTHO            210         0          0        157       *           0        157        157        157        *      0.00


 _ASEAN          491687    458665     458665     258019    -43.75    458665     295178     253310     258019     -43.75    2.73

 _ANDEAN          35944     33893      33893      38659     14.06     33893      40260      39187      38659      14.06    0.41