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                                          |                                     |                             September 6, 2012
                                          |        MAJOR SHIPPERS REPORT        |
                                          |        U.S. General Imports         |
                                          |       By Category,  7/2012 Data     |
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                                           Category 224:  PILE / TUFTED FABRICS
                                         Data in Million $$$,    * I/P:    *   

                Calendar Years               Year-to-Date              Year-Endings                                YE  7/2012
   Country      2010       2011       7/2011     7/2012  % Change    7/2011     5/2012     6/2012     7/2012   % Change % Share


     WORLD     282.617    301.306    163.179    176.649      8.25   282.778    312.112    312.406    314.776      11.32  100.00

     CHINA P   171.499    192.266     99.169    116.786     17.76   171.546    207.013    206.896    209.883      22.35   66.68

     KOR REP    17.547     15.410      8.785      9.347      6.40    15.233     15.499     15.702     15.973       4.85    5.07

     ITALY      12.485     15.215      9.276      8.584     -7.45    14.442     14.670     14.734     14.524       0.56    4.61

     CHINA T    16.093     15.175      7.691      6.923     -9.98    15.981     14.112     14.155     14.407      -9.85    4.58

     INDIA      11.533     11.940      7.351      6.471    -11.96    12.051     10.911     10.956     11.060      -8.22    3.51

     CANADA      5.061      5.481      2.860      4.384     53.30     4.991      6.573      7.024      7.005      40.37    2.23

     MEXICO      8.728      6.508      3.945      3.435    -12.93     7.651      6.303      6.114      5.998     -21.60    1.91

     MALTA       5.809      5.194      3.218      2.886    -10.32     5.281      5.016      4.915      4.862      -7.94    1.54

     TURKEY      4.883      4.982      2.988      2.671    -10.60     5.459      4.956      4.930      4.665     -14.54    1.48

     FRANCE      6.895      4.135      2.864      2.254    -21.30     5.869      3.676      3.587      3.525     -39.93    1.12

     PAKISTN     1.534      1.569      1.128      0.548    -51.42     2.267      1.142      1.122      0.989     -56.37    0.31


     _WTO      282.580    301.183    163.138    176.649      8.28   282.736    312.030    312.323    314.694      11.30   99.97

     _OECD      61.382     61.560     36.405     36.988      1.60    61.497     61.732     62.414     62.143       1.05   19.74

     _EU15      32.733     34.005     20.639     20.058     -2.82    34.174     33.292     33.428     33.424      -2.19   10.62

     _EC12      32.618     33.870     20.560     19.985     -2.80    34.073     33.170     33.306     33.295      -2.28   10.58

     _W HEMI    17.801     16.819      9.412      9.706      3.12    16.894     17.238     17.441     17.113       1.30    5.44