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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 619:  POLYESTER FILAMENT FABRIC, LIGHT-WEIGHT
                     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        179808844 195638414  195638414  234948724     20.09 195638414  220915590  226158605  234948724      20.09  100.00

 CHINA P       66768235  82158626   82158626  106267927     29.34  82158626   96483359   99543904  106267927      29.34   45.23

 KOR REP       59340240  54524552   54524552   61704696     13.17  54524552   60924071   62158413   61704696      13.17   26.26

 CHINA T       12264759  12175564   12175564   17351065     42.51  12175564   14936320   16263161   17351065      42.51    7.39

 TURKEY         8116045   7533295    7533295    9895961     31.36   7533295    9937092    9720131    9895961      31.36    4.21

 INDIA          8719786   9535040    9535040    8304060    -12.91   9535040    7876170    7999372    8304060     -12.91    3.53

 CANADA         1481359   5279016    5279016    7554721     43.11   5279016    7823476    7982729    7554721      43.11    3.22

 JAPAN          6259349   5848044    5848044    5704535     -2.45   5848044    5529080    5627553    5704535      -2.45    2.43

 VIETNAM        4663858   4536868    4536868    4300933     -5.20   4536868    5062857    4260340    4300933      -5.20    1.83

 THAILND        3999594   3174385    3174385    3753032     18.23   3174385    3147663    3606240    3753032      18.23    1.60

 MALAYSA        1653637   3030455    3030455    3477293     14.74   3030455    3440521    3362042    3477293      14.74    1.48

 INDNSIA        1720619   1982386    1982386    2198670     10.91   1982386    1196352    1170107    2198670      10.91    0.94

 MEXICO         1153406    984731     984731    1440650     46.30    984731    1479210    1376381    1440650      46.30    0.61

 FRANCE          800557    857844     857844     698415    -18.58    857844     674833     682332     698415     -18.58    0.30

 GUATMAL         132142   1442549    1442549      72868    -94.95   1442549      72868      72868      72868     -94.95    0.03


 _ASEAN        12053395  12739015   12739015   13757441      7.99  12739015   12874906   12426242   13757441       7.99    5.86

 _CBI            184942   1448743    1448743      83810    -94.21   1448743      77286      83810      83810     -94.21    0.04

 _CAFTA          184942   1448743    1448743      77186    -94.67   1448743      77186      77186      77186     -94.67    0.03