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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 315:  COTTON PRINTCLOTH 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         58927237  64255929   64255929   57158601    -11.05  64255929   58620228   57532065   57158601     -11.05  100.00

 CHINA P       27802540  30741795   30741795   22724725    -26.08  30741795   24821552   22628832   22724725     -26.08   39.76

 PAKISTN       10385165  10137498   10137498   14652463     44.54  10137498   13615268   14531192   14652463      44.54   25.63

 THAILND       10481663  13071670   13071670    9504196    -27.29  13071670   10096551    9922043    9504196     -27.29   16.63

 INDIA          3617514   3024723    3024723    2873782     -4.99   3024723    3082982    3206987    2873782      -4.99    5.03

 KOR REP        3797267   4864431    4864431    2751299    -43.44   4864431    3141185    2955209    2751299     -43.44    4.81

 JAPAN          1464548   1377425    1377425    2162906     57.03   1377425    2089812    2106840    2162906      57.03    3.78

 ARAB EM         407688     27859      27859    1420953   5000.52     27859     722081    1086011    1420953    5000.52    2.49


 _ASEAN        10669947  13641360   13641360   10108700    -25.90  13641360   10694414   10559047   10108700     -25.90   17.69