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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 226:  CHEESECLOTH, BATISTES, LAWNS/VOILE
                     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         35677745  63304746   63304746  139737883    120.74  63304746  133445861  133242645  139737883     120.74  100.00

 CHINA P       14754211  42006332   42006332  117970334    180.84  42006332  111035760  111630798  117970334     180.84   84.42

 INDIA          4445407   5244445    5244445    9602368     83.10   5244445    9027729    8907588    9602368      83.10    6.87

 CANADA         7345617   7808980    7808980    2775531    -64.46   7808980    3997273    3472489    2775531     -64.46    1.99

 KOR REP        2489673   2592452    2592452    2291947    -11.59   2592452    2436736    2394077    2291947     -11.59    1.64

 PAKISTN        2819062   2521619    2521619    1499144    -40.55   2521619    1450761    1526144    1499144     -40.55    1.07

 MEXICO          713399   1005895    1005895    1490371     48.16   1005895    1301970    1301970    1490371      48.16    1.07

 ITALY           123434    106931     106931     867629    711.39    106931     752917     770397     867629     711.39    0.62