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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 444:  W/G SUITS, WOOL
                     Data in Nos.,  3.76 M2 per Nos . 

                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           362752    468784     468784     428023     -8.70    468784     448144     425356     428023      -8.70  100.00

 CHINA P         291553    418463     418463     324019    -22.57    418463     347940     324527     324019     -22.57   75.70

 PHIL R               0     14206      14206      30469    114.48     14206      22150      22263      30469     114.48    7.12

 VIETNAM          11984     20412      20412      24316     19.13     20412      30063      29663      24316      19.13    5.68

 SRI LKA          17761      4096       4096      15035    267.07      4096      15035      15035      15035     267.07    3.51

 INDNSIA            758         0          0      10433       *           0      10433      10433      10433        *      2.44

 ITALY             7858      6529       6529       7120      9.05      6529       7163       7523       7120       9.05    1.66

 INDIA              167       828        828       3950    377.05       828       3376       3767       3950     377.05    0.92

 TURKEY            1057       270        270       3207   1087.78       270       3187       3196       3207    1087.78    0.75

 MAURIT               4         0          0          *       *           0          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN           37559     34723      34723      65261     87.95     34723      62689      62402      65261      87.95   15.25