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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