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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 626:  MMF PRINTCLOTH STAP/FIL
                     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         11585155   5498894    5498894    7174814     30.48   5498894    8367221    8301821    7174814      30.48  100.00

 PAKISTN        2076944   1337928    1337928    5288323    295.26   1337928    5267457    5747303    5288323     295.26   73.71

 ARAB EM        1903366   3149978    3149978     999670    -68.26   3149978    1834468    1550928     999670     -68.26   13.93

 CHINA P        1252940    881908     881908     833714     -5.46    881908    1230037     963948     833714      -5.46   11.62