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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 629:  OTHER MMF FABRICS OF 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         39710579  43799692   43799692   41887042     -4.37  43799692   41510095   41235483   41887042      -4.37  100.00

 CHINA P       15587254  16232273   16232273   17878193     10.14  16232273   16854700   16909873   17878193      10.14   42.68

 CANADA        10853395  11029465   11029465    8605075    -21.98  11029465    9653713    9450980    8605075     -21.98   20.54

 INDIA          2828414   4427658    4427658    2725940    -38.43   4427658    2288115    2427626    2725940     -38.43    6.51

 INDNSIA         132462   1399745    1399745    2186041     56.17   1399745    2105680    2102265    2186041      56.17    5.22

 TURKEY         1991662   1713193    1713193    1770957      3.37   1713193    1788871    1762346    1770957       3.37    4.23

 THAILND         227008   1450500    1450500    1659573     14.41   1450500    1680038    1724429    1659573      14.41    3.96

 CHINA T        1130461   1460349    1460349    1533029      4.98   1460349    1581239    1543202    1533029       4.98    3.66

 PAKISTN         650979    148295     148295    1153867    678.09    148295     972613    1016546    1153867     678.09    2.75

 KOR REP        1315650   1320860    1320860    1024647    -22.43   1320860    1047061     990728    1024647     -22.43    2.45

 ITALY           966110   1146272    1146272     977094    -14.76   1146272     956253     932142     977094     -14.76    2.33

 MALAYSA         192795   1257765    1257765     193507    -84.62   1257765     483613     290145     193507     -84.62    0.46


 _ASEAN          554040   4154892    4154892    4046783     -2.60   4154892    4314946    4121553    4046783      -2.60    9.66