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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 431:  WOOL GLOVES/MITTENS
                     Data in Dpr.,  1.80 M2 per Dpr . 

                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           746920    669723     669723     622981     -6.98    669723     632856     642442     622981      -6.98  100.00

 CHINA P         446515    318328     318328     368498     15.76    318328     351727     367426     368498      15.76   59.15

 NEPAL            32927     55900      55900      56347      0.80     55900      58738      59856      56347       0.80    9.04

 ITALY            60051     69773      69773      49176    -29.52     69773      56593      56738      49176     -29.52    7.89

 UKRAINE              0     80848      80848       2234    -97.24     80848       6085       2234       2234     -97.24    0.36


 _ASEAN           25451     46887      46887      27481    -41.39     46887      32743      26695      27481     -41.39    4.41