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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 628:  MMF TWILLS/SATEENS 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         25651017  22067795   22067795   21509982     -2.53  22067795   18361225   19014425   21509982      -2.53  100.00

 CHINA P       18693326  15954612   15954612   15942780     -0.07  15954612   12821824   13204467   15942780      -0.07   74.12

 CHINA T        1524132   2784818    2784818    1832431    -34.20   2784818    2114482    2022126    1832431     -34.20    8.52

 CANADA         1588408    566415     566415    1230794    117.30    566415    1083445    1235273    1230794     117.30    5.72

 KOR REP        2521451   1673442    1673442    1178034    -29.60   1673442    1162158    1168767    1178034     -29.60    5.48

 MAURIT               0       114        114          *       *         114        114          *          *        *       *