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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 317:  COTTON TWILL 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         46534394  79483993   79483993   74540996     -6.22  79483993   78768817   75741712   74540996      -6.22  100.00

 CHINA P       19900139  49299540   49299540   44040537    -10.67  49299540   47552058   45120780   44040537     -10.67   59.08

 PAKISTN       12028941  11682759   11682759   14787650     26.58  11682759   15349222   14898090   14787650      26.58   19.84

 CHINA T        4932419   5768650    5768650    2677186    -53.59   5768650    3051057    3165251    2677186     -53.59    3.59

 INDIA          1783450   2680656    2680656    2666098     -0.54   2680656    2846673    2728815    2666098      -0.54    3.58

 JAPAN           607255   1328369    1328369    2208192     66.23   1328369    1652698    1962255    2208192      66.23    2.96

 MEXICO          169467    554156     554156    1421387    156.50    554156    1334206    1379110    1421387     156.50    1.91

 TURKEY          267872    678220     678220     990585     46.06    678220     895295     850950     990585      46.06    1.33

 GERMANY         728885   1078596    1078596     983869     -8.78   1078596    1078016    1019996     983869      -8.78    1.32

 ITALY           744136    932714     932714     864672     -7.30    932714     935516     832497     864672      -7.30    1.16

 CANADA         1273937   1697444    1697444     649781    -61.72   1697444     782025     714362     649781     -61.72    0.87

 MAURIT               0         0          0         20       *           0         20         20         20        *      0.00


 _ASEAN         1110521    852469     852469     671556    -21.22    852469     613969     650533     671556     -21.22    0.90