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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 617:  MMF TWILL AND SATEEN 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         21370021  22553027   22553027   17903082    -20.62  22553027   17400300   17493505   17903082     -20.62  100.00

 CHINA P        9026335  10737654   10737654    9465555    -11.85  10737654    9198221    9249865    9465555     -11.85   52.87

 PAKISTN        3339260   3710319    3710319    3776399      1.78   3710319    3159473    3497477    3776399       1.78   21.09

 CANADA         1586025   1742518    1742518    1326434    -23.88   1742518    1598389    1415296    1326434     -23.88    7.41

 BAHRAIN        5455446   3787083    3787083    1014852    -73.20   3787083    1031714    1031714    1014852     -73.20    5.67

 THAILND         712847   1056186    1056186     380536    -63.97   1056186     530767     453092     380536     -63.97    2.13


 _ASEAN          911260   1155126    1155126     455611    -60.56   1155126     605842     528167     455611     -60.56    2.54