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                                          |                                     |                                  June 5, 2012
                                          |        MAJOR SHIPPERS REPORT        |
                                          |        U.S. General Imports         |
                                          |       By Category,  4/2012 Data     |
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                                           Category 604:  YARN > 85% SYNTHETIC STAPLE FIBER
                                         Data in Million $$$,    * I/P:    *   

                Calendar Years               Year-to-Date              Year-Endings                                YE  4/2012
   Country      2010       2011       4/2011     4/2012  % Change    4/2011     2/2012     3/2012     4/2012   % Change % Share


     WORLD      95.040    117.682     43.145     38.858     -9.94   105.965    116.282    114.418    113.394       7.01  100.00

     INDNSIA    39.997     51.833     21.511     16.189    -24.74    47.778     50.337     48.832     46.511      -2.65   41.02

     CANADA     16.519     18.413      6.248      5.589    -10.54    17.020     18.111     17.706     17.754       4.31   15.66

     INDIA      10.494     13.304      3.463      4.993     44.17     9.903     14.435     14.706     14.833      49.79   13.08

     CHINA P     9.032     10.432      4.665      2.986    -35.98    10.642      8.789      8.581      8.753     -17.75    7.72

     VIETNAM     2.197      3.673      1.099      2.951    168.52     2.840      4.033      4.618      5.526      94.56    4.87

     TURKEY      1.632      4.339      1.633      1.603     -1.80     2.346      4.279      4.320      4.310      83.76    3.80

     GERMANY     2.265      2.356      0.157      1.008    542.57     1.883      3.038      3.112      3.208      70.34    2.83

     PHIL R      1.814      2.716      0.662      1.070     61.69     2.178      3.148      2.947      3.124      43.40    2.75

     MEXICO      1.485      2.348      0.547      0.500     -8.68     1.562      2.355      2.191      2.300      47.29    2.03

     ROMANIA     2.639      1.313      0.457      0.390    -14.65     2.456      1.257      1.082      1.246     -49.27    1.10

     THAILND     1.611      1.353      0.674      0.322    -52.25     1.832      1.283      1.202      1.001     -45.36    0.88

     JAPAN       0.737      1.118      0.467      0.154    -66.97     0.939      1.021      0.964      0.805     -14.20    0.71

     CHINA T     0.835      0.393      0.110      0.241    118.90     0.565      0.472      0.452      0.524      -7.27    0.46

     MALAYSA     0.319      0.686      0.451      0.000   -100.00     0.656      0.563      0.515      0.235     -64.20    0.21


     _WTO       95.040    117.673     43.145     38.858     -9.94   105.965    116.273    114.408    113.385       7.00   99.99

     _ASEAN     46.064     60.413     24.451     20.532    -16.03    55.396     59.515     58.266     56.494       1.98   49.82

     _OECD      23.075     27.631      8.762      8.879      1.34    23.736     27.765     27.567     27.748      16.91   24.47

     _W HEMI    18.370     21.193      7.001      6.089    -13.03    19.089     20.825     20.176     20.281       6.25   17.89

     _EU15       4.649      4.589      0.776      1.638    111.02     4.037      5.111      5.281      5.450      34.99    4.81

     _EC12       4.358      4.003      0.564      1.539    172.74     3.575      4.646      4.717      4.978      39.23    4.39