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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 621:  IMPRESSION FABRIC
                     Data in Kg.., 14.40 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            83505    116918     116918     463804    296.69    116918     330208     408134     463804     296.69  100.00

 CHINA P          31810     35932      35932     218302    507.54     35932     150472     201852     218302     507.54   47.07

 KOR REP          13317     14941      14941     146519    880.65     14941      91833     108863     146519     880.65   31.59

 CANADA           19931     50688      50688      70117     38.33     50688      61881      71366      70117      38.33   15.12