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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 432:  WOOL HOSIERY
                     Data in Dpr.,  2.30 M2 per Dpr . 

                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           612141    981718     981718    1377577     40.32    981718    1340703    1396603    1377577      40.32  100.00

 CHINA P         160574    345142     345142     483765     40.16    345142     434390     479248     483765      40.16   35.12

 KOR REP         146762    203360     203360     346362     70.32    203360     328754     343063     346362      70.32   25.14

 ITALY            86220    116736     116736     113240     -2.99    116736     121800     122050     113240      -2.99    8.22

 PERU             15900     74839      74839     108204     44.58     74839     134507     120359     108204      44.58    7.85

 CHINA T          15074     27096      27096      65032    140.01     27096      58786      60247      65032     140.01    4.72

 TURKEY           19194     37381      37381      48077     28.61     37381      41624      48874      48077      28.61    3.49

 MEXICO           27029     34171      34171      45147     32.12     34171      38985      45551      45147      32.12    3.28

 PAKISTN          40307     28933      28933      43336     49.78     28933      49557      46651      43336      49.78    3.15


 _ANDEAN          20204     76735      76735     113513     47.93     76735     139433     125607     113513      47.93    8.24