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| PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | May 14, 2012
| HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! |
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| By Category, Preliminary 4/2012 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 899: OTH SILK / VEG BLEND MANUFACTURES
Data in Kg.., 11.10 M2 per Kg. .
Calendar Years Year-to-Date Year-Endings YE 4/2012
Country 2010 2011 4/2011 4/2012 % Change 4/2011 2/2012 3/2012 4/2012 % Change % Share
(P) (P)
WORLD 8288334 13981826 3685880 6047559 64.07 9819472 15297799 16053003 16343505 66.44 100.00
ISRAEL 3800 3642597 344559 2314265 571.66 348347 5035399 5638096 5612303 1511.12 34.34
CHINA P 5460966 5612401 1643177 1513157 -7.91 5726352 5519771 5472240 5482381 -4.26 33.54
PORTUGL 186006 1721840 816084 978575 19.91 856849 1822790 1836268 1884331 119.91 11.53
INDIA 849211 1301465 427406 252078 -41.02 1059389 1213545 1136902 1126137 6.30 6.89
ITALY 129241 119071 11714 541603 4523.56 121041 154421 415925 648960 436.15 3.97
KOR REP 304561 310859 70499 32730 -53.57 339358 307909 298607 273090 -19.53 1.67
CHINA T 92857 236667 55204 66938 21.26 120999 226053 226668 248401 105.29 1.52
GERMANY 71644 152700 57670 101608 76.19 115915 149096 166105 196638 69.64 1.20
MEXICO 301128 137351 37983 44033 15.93 250138 141651 149025 143401 -42.67 0.88
VIETNAM 24219 97479 2487 24036 866.47 7527 96911 96652 119028 1481.35 0.73
CANADA 74911 90689 17462 6170 -64.67 62547 86889 87072 79397 26.94 0.49
PAKISTN 338796 58307 25758 27914 8.37 327661 64856 52560 60463 -81.55 0.37
MAURIT 60 2 0 * * 0 2 2 2 * 0.00
_ASEAN 44970 142862 9592 34746 262.24 32339 142885 146137 168016 419.55 1.03