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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 442:  WOOL SKIRTS
                     Data in Doz., 15.00 M2 per Doz . 

                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           191313    221413     221413     215788     -2.54    221413     207934     212668     215788      -2.54  100.00

 CHINA P          95242     90508      90508     105114     16.14     90508     103279     104875     105114      16.14   48.71

 PHIL R           23890     23706      23706      25165      6.15     23706      22618      23612      25165       6.15   11.66

 SRI LKA           2384     12130      12130      15265     25.85     12130      14994      14814      15265      25.85    7.07

 INDNSIA          11834     14203      14203      13778     -2.99     14203      12404      13134      13778      -2.99    6.38

 THAILND           9705      5384       5384       8530     58.43      5384       8201       8391       8530      58.43    3.95

 VIETNAM          12717     31484      31484       8240    -73.83     31484       8173       8009       8240     -73.83    3.82

 ITALY             6104      6432       6432       7796     21.20      6432       7545       7565       7796      21.20    3.61

 INDIA             9678      7082       7082       5829    -17.69      7082       5312       6474       5829     -17.69    2.70

 CAMBOD             134      7475       7475       1108    -85.18      7475       1748       1644       1108     -85.18    0.51

 MAURIT               0         1          1          2    100.00         1          2          2          2     100.00    0.00


 _ASEAN           58283     82255      82255      56828    -30.91     82255      53148      54794      56828     -30.91   26.34