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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 618:  WOVEN ARTIFICIAL FILAMENT FAB.
                     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         16829093  20499874   20499874   15835228    -22.75  20499874   16229862   15825989   15835228     -22.75  100.00

 KOR REP        9153924   9316089    9316089    7075685    -24.05   9316089    7561387    7259013    7075685     -24.05   44.68

 CHINA P        2392950   5358222    5358222    3199885    -40.28   5358222    2866285    2803228    3199885     -40.28   20.21

 CANADA         3289154   3243967    3243967    2419791    -25.41   3243967    2688759    2636186    2419791     -25.41   15.28

 JAPAN           829666   1136225    1136225    1076658     -5.24   1136225    1151790    1143383    1076658      -5.24    6.80

 ITALY           786749    647734     647734    1050258     62.14    647734     931401     991442    1050258      62.14    6.63