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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 606:  NON-TEXTURED FILAMENT YARN
                     Data in Kg.., 20.10 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         34874033  38494150   38494150   40893250      6.23  38494150   40576388   40822391   40893250       6.23  100.00

 CHINA P        8446650  13817237   13817237   19780123     43.16  13817237   19085779   19503294   19780123      43.16   48.37

 KOR REP       15387307   9905634    9905634    8316830    -16.04   9905634    8238972    8275914    8316830     -16.04   20.34

 TURKEY          955117   1935122    1935122    2030726      4.94   1935122    2127201    2052986    2030726       4.94    4.97

 GERMANY        1263112   2060052    2060052    2017008     -2.09   2060052    2027022    2037239    2017008      -2.09    4.93

 LATVIA         1113693   1731847    1731847    1694793     -2.14   1731847    1670743    1742997    1694793      -2.14    4.14

 CANADA         1354593   1697600    1697600    1448500    -14.67   1697600    1717962    1653886    1448500     -14.67    3.54

 BELARUS         487147   1098115    1098115     912907    -16.87   1098115    1103419    1027488     912907     -16.87    2.23

 INDIA          1180201   1424190    1424190     790425    -44.50   1424190     878909     728546     790425     -44.50    1.93

 MEXICO          316531    681997     681997     725460      6.37    681997     675008     688233     725460       6.37    1.77

 SLOVAK          592112    623322     623322     656688      5.35    623322     628389     657437     656688       5.35    1.61

 JAPAN           536699    749075     749075     535879    -28.46    749075     565962     542539     535879     -28.46    1.31

 CHINA T         214120    834784     834784     480556    -42.43    834784     568298     528044     480556     -42.43    1.18

 ISRAEL           63691    219898     219898     415357     88.89    219898     393174     390073     415357      88.89    1.02

 U KING          253158    211163     211163     157636    -25.35    211163     162215     159212     157636     -25.35    0.39

 SWEDEN            1297         0          0     147307       *           0     116530     147307     147307        *      0.36


 _ASEAN         1485296    854933     854933     151906    -82.23    854933     168451     165100     151906     -82.23    0.37