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  ______________                          |                                     |                              November 5, 2012
 |              |                         |        MAJOR SHIPPERS REPORT        |
 | ARGENT       |                         |    U.S. General Imports By Country  |
 |______________|                         |  Data through  9/2012 in Million $  |
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                           Calendar Years       Year-to-Date                 Year-Endings                             YE  9/2012
 Ctrl, Cat, Product        2010      2011     9/2011    9/2012  % Change    9/2011    7/2012    8/2012    9/2012  % Change % Share


Aggregations:
       0 Total            10.495    11.841     8.872     5.719    -35.54    11.218    10.598     9.406     8.688    -22.55    0.01
       1 Apparel           1.751     2.254     1.408     1.234    -12.38     1.917     2.135     2.085     2.080      8.52    0.00
       2 Non-Apparel       8.745     9.587     7.464     4.485    -39.91     9.301     8.463     7.321     6.608    -28.95    0.03
      11 Yarns             1.809     0.824     0.752     0.534    -28.92     0.950     0.918     0.907     0.607    -36.10    0.04
      12 Fabrics           5.540     8.002     6.182     3.363    -45.60     7.505     6.816     5.627     5.183    -30.93    0.09
      14 Made Ups / Mis    1.396     0.761     0.530     0.587     10.90     0.847     0.729     0.787     0.818     -3.38    0.00
      30 Cotton Product    1.288     1.853     1.105     0.968    -12.45     1.452     1.820     1.717     1.715     18.12    0.00
      31 Cotton Apparel    0.965     1.717     1.013     0.830    -18.04     1.312     1.640     1.544     1.534     16.97    0.00
      32 Cot Non-Appare    0.322     0.136     0.092     0.138     48.84     0.141     0.180     0.173     0.181     28.91    0.00
      40 Wool Products     2.545     1.277     0.996     0.936     -6.01     1.407     1.373     1.499     1.217    -13.47    0.03
      41 Wool Apparel      0.104     0.078     0.039     0.135    241.14     0.078     0.183     0.173     0.173    121.65    0.00
      42 Wool Non-Appar    2.441     1.199     0.957     0.802    -16.20     1.329     1.191     1.327     1.044    -21.42    0.10
      60 MMF Products      6.645     8.688     6.755     3.778    -44.07     8.340     7.375     6.157     5.711    -31.52    0.01
      61 MMF Apparel       0.673     0.441     0.345     0.262    -23.82     0.514     0.300     0.353     0.359    -30.25    0.00
      62 MMF Non-Appare    5.972     8.247     6.410     3.515    -45.16     7.826     7.075     5.805     5.352    -31.60    0.04
      80 S and V Produc    0.018     0.023     0.016     0.037    137.20     0.019     0.029     0.032     0.045    132.32    0.00
      81 S and V Appare    0.009     0.018     0.011     0.007    -41.70     0.013     0.012     0.015     0.014      7.20    0.00
      82 S and V Non-Ap    0.009     0.005     0.004     0.031    601.82     0.006     0.016     0.017     0.031    382.02    0.01

Cotton or Man-Made Fiber:
     222 Knit Fabric       2.134     1.948     1.479     1.175    -20.60     2.079     1.913     1.883     1.643    -20.98    0.25
     229 Special Fabric    0.008     1.670     1.669     0.004    -99.75     1.669     0.915     0.005     0.005    -99.69    0.00

Wool:
     400 Wool Yarns        1.623     0.611     0.556     0.292    -47.47     0.712     0.591     0.664     0.347    -51.31    0.24