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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 218:  FABRICS OF YARNS OF DIFF. COLORS
                     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         46383219  50545267   50545267   37673601    -25.47  50545267   42905413   42958160   37673601     -25.47  100.00

 CHINA P       22015486  20612636   20612636   13623999    -33.90  20612636   13116900   13569880   13623999     -33.90   36.16

 INDIA          5247831   4590399    4590399    5425120     18.18   4590399    5294165    5293110    5425120      18.18   14.40

 ITALY          5848551   9739403    9739403    4692782    -51.82   9739403   10196950   10157691    4692782     -51.82   12.46

 TURKEY         3146971   3511893    3511893    3642900      3.73   3511893    3924925    3669114    3642900       3.73    9.67

 CHINA T        2198993   1954129    1954129    1792585     -8.27   1954129    1829038    1755042    1792585      -8.27    4.76

 MEXICO         1868030   1680827    1680827    1413016    -15.93   1680827    1446233    1401580    1413016     -15.93    3.75

 PAKISTN         539551   1442133    1442133    1107939    -23.17   1442133     934207     971532    1107939     -23.17    2.94

 THAILND         487259    515921     515921    1084211    110.15    515921    1039382    1112578    1084211     110.15    2.88

 JAPAN          1123937   1124037    1124037     972342    -13.50   1124037    1043617     970288     972342     -13.50    2.58

 MAURIT          827578    336756     336756      22575    -93.30    336756      88659      61829      22575     -93.30    0.06


 _ASEAN          607532    592840     592840    1195569    101.67    592840    1097742    1171079    1195569     101.67    3.17