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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 224:  PILE / TUFTED FABRICS
                     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        160467795 197207458  197207458  171576521    -13.00 197207458  174091142  171246979  171576521     -13.00  100.00

 CHINA P       90465118 100736888  100736888  107427008      6.64 100736888   99389842  101690361  107427008       6.64   62.61

 MALTA         32248382  34066765   34066765   26926556    -20.96  34066765   31614317   29543845   26926556     -20.96   15.69

 CHINA T       14075446  12130768   12130768   10405092    -14.23  12130768   10530767   10582711   10405092     -14.23    6.06

 FRANCE         3153580  29234910   29234910    9832583    -66.37  29234910   15163914   12216442    9832583     -66.37    5.73

 KOR REP        7730643   8202763    8202763    6175610    -24.71   8202763    6019539    6165545    6175610     -24.71    3.60

 INDIA          2391491   2760429    2760429    2548253     -7.69   2760429    2538459    2561183    2548253      -7.69    1.49

 MEXICO         2616687   2412872    2412872    1406036    -41.73   2412872    1452927    1417963    1406036     -41.73    0.82

 PAKISTN        1305478   1687459    1687459    1080607    -35.96   1687459    1428394    1152805    1080607     -35.96    0.63

 CANADA         1079636   1146940    1146940    1062946     -7.32   1146940    1106211    1124479    1062946      -7.32    0.62

 ITALY           661962    847663     847663     961236     13.40    847663     990681     968612     961236      13.40    0.56

 ARGENT          557639    722331     722331     917664     27.04    722331     843386     910444     917664      27.04    0.53

 TURKEY         2297956    864935     864935     772841    -10.65    864935     840639     817753     772841     -10.65    0.45