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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 614:  MMF POPLIN / BROADCLOTH 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         38382860  51957585   51957585   43368805    -16.53  51957585   46615615   44272560   43368805     -16.53  100.00

 CHINA P       24612652  34399026   34399026   28888903    -16.02  34399026   30723985   29473261   28888903     -16.02   66.61

 PAKISTN        4062163   5619046    5619046    4181560    -25.58   5619046    5398147    4485789    4181560     -25.58    9.64

 THAILND        2840191   4613699    4613699    3367656    -27.01   4613699    4157880    3790222    3367656     -27.01    7.77

 MALAYSA        1834558   2146246    2146246    2106240     -1.86   2146246    2129259    2092842    2106240      -1.86    4.86

 INDNSIA        1110865   1871508    1871508    2063606     10.26   1871508    1722025    1879923    2063606      10.26    4.76


 _ASEAN         5785614   8631453    8631453    7552329    -12.50   8631453    8020937    7776287    7552329     -12.50   17.41