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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 613:  MMF SHEETING FABRIC
                     Data in M2..,  1.00 M2 per M2. . 

                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          9833239   8024524    8024524    5249836    -34.58   8024524    5107860    4920466    5249836     -34.58  100.00

 PAKISTN        5553668   2202931    2202931    2253618      2.30   2202931    2324101    2097572    2253618       2.30   42.93

 CHINA P        3130547   3337018    3337018    1696372    -49.17   3337018    1622227    1511790    1696372     -49.17   32.31

 THAILND         303217   1278826    1278826     339222    -73.47   1278826     404187     396493     339222     -73.47    6.46


 _ASEAN          438835   1281818    1281818     339603    -73.51   1281818     404568     396874     339603     -73.51    6.47