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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 439: BABIES' GARMENTS/CLOTHING ACCESS.
Data in Kg.., 6.30 M2 per Kg. .
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 70696 65604 65604 54739 -16.56 65604 53773 54694 54739 -16.56 100.00
CHINA P 29159 35319 35319 25518 -27.75 35319 24620 25168 25518 -27.75 46.62
_ASEAN 13633 13272 13272 9157 -31.01 13272 8836 9150 9157 -31.01 16.73