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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 459:  OTHER WOOL APPAREL
                     Data in Kg..,  3.70 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          2680143   2711970    2711970    2454698     -9.49   2711970    2432646    2444980    2454698      -9.49  100.00

 CHINA P        1905785   1962340    1962340    1618793    -17.51   1962340    1617617    1620089    1618793     -17.51   65.95

 ITALY           138774    147572     147572     186115     26.12    147572     175408     182689     186115      26.12    7.58

 INDIA           168008    159796     159796     145232     -9.11    159796     144211     143520     145232      -9.11    5.92

 U KING           89454     92249      92249      88569     -3.99     92249      88914      88407      88569      -3.99    3.61

 VIETNAM          85249     47132      47132      84960     80.26     47132      84157      85874      84960      80.26    3.46

 PERU             25620     33223      33223      41556     25.08     33223      40424      40641      41556      25.08    1.69

 NEPAL            22204     25811      25811      31624     22.52     25811      30383      31342      31624      22.52    1.29

 INDNSIA          12879     18483      18483      30596     65.54     18483      25956      29213      30596      65.54    1.25

 MAURIT             112       145        145         61    -57.93       145         66         56         61     -57.93    0.00

 LESOTHO              0         0          0          *       *           0          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN          113990     89021      89021     139704     56.93     89021     135990     140251     139704      56.93    5.69

 _ANDEAN          44424     43186      43186      56643     31.16     43186      55289      55504      56643      31.16    2.31