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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 225:  BLUE DENIM FABRIC
                     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         31004208  30771121   30771121   23732432    -22.87  30771121   23466173   23166530   23732432     -22.87  100.00

 CHINA P       10967241  11147240   11147240    8763397    -21.39  11147240    8537403    8199450    8763397     -21.39   36.93

 MEXICO         4807360   3711119    3711119    4288460     15.56   3711119    4348939    4318624    4288460      15.56   18.07

 CHINA T        4604778   4042545    4042545    3518366    -12.97   4042545    3638740    3461891    3518366     -12.97   14.83

 ITALY          4680831   4496834    4496834    2909491    -35.30   4496834    2782468    2887329    2909491     -35.30   12.26

 JAPAN          2392954   2325791    2325791    2355093      1.26   2325791    2274039    2354587    2355093       1.26    9.92

 TURKEY         1438365   1918073    1918073    1264483    -34.08   1918073    1262526    1278555    1264483     -34.08    5.33

 BAHRAIN         497062   1500870    1500870          *       *     1500870      25680          *          *        *       *