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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 607:  OTHER STAPLE FIBER 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         10167742  14031675   14031675   12051002    -14.12  14031675   12588324   12587013   12051002     -14.12  100.00

 CHINA P        1443234   4017006    4017006    3940589     -1.90   4017006    4188697    4193242    3940589      -1.90   32.70

 INDNSIA        4264922   3211846    3211846    3036069     -5.47   3211846    2818584    3038438    3036069      -5.47   25.19

 INDIA           708304   1597322    1597322    1917476     20.04   1597322    1915307    1862974    1917476      20.04   15.91

 MEXICO          315301    553603     553603     809459     46.22    553603    1005218     910433     809459      46.22    6.72

 CANADA          718448    709415     709415     777624      9.61    709415     778536     823240     777624       9.61    6.45

 VIETNAM         649541   1339723    1339723     620175    -53.71   1339723     542551     596902     620175     -53.71    5.15

 KOR REP         755518   1140070    1140070     360823    -68.35   1140070     562964     449953     360823     -68.35    2.99

 THAILND         419058    649932     649932     289117    -55.52    649932     359368     371495     289117     -55.52    2.40

 PHIL R          179777    134933     134933      38964    -71.12    134933     116915      58446      38964     -71.12    0.32


 _ASEAN         5551582   5336434    5336434    3999344    -25.06   5336434    3852437    4080300    3999344     -25.06   33.19