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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 600:  TEXTURED FILAMENT YARN
                     Data in Kg..,  6.50 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         90304104 103508395  103508395   94452289     -8.75 103508395  100930673   98815624   94452289      -8.75  100.00

 CANADA        50817493  53804147   53804147   43627978    -18.91  53804147   49638579   47504585   43627978     -18.91   46.19

 MEXICO        11707023  15939148   15939148   15853452     -0.54  15939148   15992343   15944378   15853452      -0.54   16.78

 INDIA          3632887   3865551    3865551    5845304     51.22   3865551    5912007    5856959    5845304      51.22    6.19

 INDNSIA        3745457   4050221    4050221    5231153     29.16   4050221    5241941    5347593    5231153      29.16    5.54

 CHINA P        3234660   5229122    5229122    5139965     -1.71   5229122    4959199    5071424    5139965      -1.71    5.44

 CHINA T        6064362   4994346    4994346    3947309    -20.96   4994346    3832213    3980248    3947309     -20.96    4.18

 MALAYSA        2229183   3799091    3799091    3865627      1.75   3799091    4137786    3871591    3865627       1.75    4.09

 ITALY          2005770   3457781    3457781    2931936    -15.21   3457781    2988160    2976121    2931936     -15.21    3.10

 THAILND        1688958   2675930    2675930    2743750      2.53   2675930    3062055    2859197    2743750       2.53    2.90

 KOR REP         569403    941370     941370    2122584    125.48    941370    1754551    2082886    2122584     125.48    2.25

 BELGIUM         100448    442505     442505     512359     15.79    442505     520784     535937     512359      15.79    0.54

 GERMANY        1937229    590006     590006     452670    -23.28    590006     465615     439015     452670     -23.28    0.48

 FRANCE          102347    272518     272518     343842     26.17    272518     349694     349848     343842      26.17    0.36

 SLOVENI         246287    350399     350399     309706    -11.61    350399     287636     295827     309706     -11.61    0.33

 VIETNAM         225493    367091     367091     300215    -18.22    367091     313527     301188     300215     -18.22    0.32


 _ASEAN         7889091  10926297   10926297   12170634     11.39  10926297   12785198   12409458   12170634      11.39   12.89