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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 313:  COTTON SHEETING 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        197030254 259249979  259249979  233507630     -9.93 259249979  235813237  233243657  233507630      -9.93  100.00

 CHINA P       73746787 109949086  109949086   87348984    -20.56 109949086   90680514   89669433   87348984     -20.56   37.41

 KOR REP       47943336  58447728   58447728   55720742     -4.67  58447728   54654564   54261857   55720742      -4.67   23.86

 PAKISTN       40825754  48959923   48959923   53886783     10.06  48959923   52341828   52205398   53886783      10.06   23.08

 JAPAN         12308220  12619434   12619434   10834866    -14.14  12619434   10811874   10625826   10834866     -14.14    4.64

 INDNSIA        5138658   9770994    9770994    7927619    -18.87   9770994    8215516    7908674    7927619     -18.87    3.40

 INDIA          3518721   6448816    6448816    7924375     22.88   6448816    7477944    7807980    7924375      22.88    3.39

 THAILND        7318546   6982083    6982083    4484266    -35.77   6982083    5715607    5074245    4484266     -35.77    1.92

 GERMANY        1090023    779497     779497    1277206     63.85    779497    1276516    1354903    1277206      63.85    0.55

 TURKEY          890863    886178     886178     720100    -18.74    886178     822539     803230     720100     -18.74    0.31

 CHINA T        2312674   1769856    1769856     408243    -76.93   1769856     748018     645551     408243     -76.93    0.17


 _ASEAN        12505194  16953038   16953038   12855825    -24.17  16953038   14378793   13430589   12855825     -24.17    5.51