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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 625:  MMF POPLIN/BROADCLTH STAP/FIL
                     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         18491333  14370924   14370924   12046985    -16.17  14370924   11439282   11746595   12046985     -16.17  100.00

 THAILND        7044498   6882933    6882933    4006156    -41.80   6882933    4288700    3902569    4006156     -41.80   33.25

 CHINA P        2835742   1267051    1267051    2420142     91.01   1267051    2035797    2190113    2420142      91.01   20.09

 PAKISTN        5074794   3279336    3279336    1777439    -45.80   3279336    1306990    1826264    1777439     -45.80   14.75

 ARAB EM        2334332   1394850    1394850    1691933     21.30   1394850    1923899    1924339    1691933      21.30   14.04

 TURKEY           56161     91664      91664    1215844   1226.41     91664    1194798    1216898    1215844    1226.41   10.09


 _ASEAN         7389628   6972421    6972421    4051976    -41.89   6972421    4356974    3949369    4051976     -41.89   33.63