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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                              January 19, 2012
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
                                          |         Preliminary 12/2011 Data        |
                                          |            By Merged-Category           |
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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 352/652 :  UNDERWEAR
                                                 Data in Doz

                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)


 O  WORLD    231051422 289208738   289208738  257208468    -11.06  289208738  269464312  263883634  257208468    -11.06  100.00

 O  CHINA P   34481641  53118232    53118232   45524044    -14.30   53118232   46038316   45545826   45524044    -14.30   17.70

 O  HONDURA   32173833  41883365    41883365   35107036    -16.18   41883365   37471535   36436877   35107036    -16.18   13.65

 O  VIETNAM   14933594  23478953    23478953   28412396     21.01   23478953   29838426   29029168   28412396     21.01   11.05

 O  SALVADR   24040289  29128290    29128290   25921922    -11.01   29128290   27285349   27037090   25921922    -11.01   10.08

 O  BNGLDSH   18408554  21332283    21332283   19709246     -7.61   21332283   20209306   19847261   19709246     -7.61    7.66

 O  INDIA     17863634  21643420    21643420   18441115    -14.80   21643420   19793166   19079395   18441115    -14.80    7.17

 O  THAILND   16907725  21348058    21348058   15085050    -29.34   21348058   16630337   15866265   15085050    -29.34    5.86

 O  SRI LKA    8734178   9590507     9590507   10587228     10.39    9590507   10528415   10646003   10587228     10.39    4.12

 O  HAITI      8509492  10087587    10087587    8524565    -15.49   10087587    9155485    9038630    8524565    -15.49    3.31

 O  DOM REP   11066028   8844027     8844027    7547937    -14.65    8844027    8253219    8038632    7547937    -14.65    2.93

 O  C RICA     5911586   6421852     6421852    6139391     -4.40    6421852    6275839    6178217    6139391     -4.40    2.39

 O  CAMBOD     5396816   6326179     6326179    5970505     -5.62    6326179    6085891    5992317    5970505     -5.62    2.32

 O  NICARAG    2789976   4382428     4382428    4992595     13.92    4382428    5392475    5221428    4992595     13.92    1.94

 O  PAKISTN    4174330   5201697     5201697    4965374     -4.54    5201697    5400671    5171775    4965374     -4.54    1.93

 O  PHIL R     4075642   5251973     5251973    4108264    -21.78    5251973    3971794    3977728    4108264    -21.78    1.60


 O  _CBI      84902079 101801761   101801761   88760188    -12.81  101801761   94467201   92566879   88760188    -12.81   34.51

 O  _CAFTA    76330872  91703408    91703408   80226221    -12.52   91703408   85299872   83518461   80226221    -12.52   31.19

 O  _ASEAN    47353243  62710803    62710803   58735343     -6.34   62710803   61965247   60207825   58735343     -6.34   22.84

 O  _ANDEAN    1204907   1390306     1390306    1197612    -13.86    1390306    1175563    1192727    1197612    -13.86    0.47

 O  _SUB-SAHA   139126    245169      245169     199605    -18.58     245169     186122     190753     199605    -18.58    0.08