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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 326:  COTTON SATEEN 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         38128727  39680919   39680919   29440700    -25.81  39680919   30634133   30742795   29440700     -25.81  100.00

 PAKISTN       10047943  11845254   11845254   12552403      5.97  11845254   11842931   12243408   12552403       5.97   42.64

 CHINA P       16384771  14832822   14832822    8381138    -43.50  14832822    8965877    9002412    8381138     -43.50   28.47

 INDIA           578242   1588349    1588349    4499730    183.30   1588349    4529715    4482033    4499730     183.30   15.28

 ARAB EM        5155332   4044531    4044531    1750118    -56.73   4044531    2231813    2219804    1750118     -56.73    5.94

 KOR REP         737157    792021     792021     675756    -14.68    792021     694330     639788     675756     -14.68    2.30

 CHINA T        1322959    986202     986202     311428    -68.42    986202     417443     394267     311428     -68.42    1.06

 ITALY           712474    813645     813645     307061    -62.26    813645     470357     457495     307061     -62.26    1.04

 JAPAN           157644    294767     294767     242449    -17.75    294767     288938     299837     242449     -17.75    0.82

 BAHRAIN        1810046   2531921    2531921     231051    -90.87   2531921     497123     376138     231051     -90.87    0.78

 THAILND         793202   1512701    1512701     147490    -90.25   1512701     326334     271417     147490     -90.25    0.50


 _ASEAN          796945   1590491    1590491     151610    -90.47   1590491     329825     273933     151610     -90.47    0.51