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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |
                                          |         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 445/446 :  WOOL SWEATERS
                                            Data in Doz , 12.40 M2 per 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      2205589   2758726     2758726    2693631     -2.36    2758726    2664791    2682669    2693631     -2.36  100.00

 O  CHINA P    1944037   2528079     2528079    2440948     -3.45    2528079    2421515    2429767    2440948     -3.45   90.62

 O  ITALY        64738     69172       69172      91550     32.35      69172      88867      90777      91550     32.35    3.40

 O  BNGLDSH      32628     24309       24309      29480     21.27      24309      21549      29419      29480     21.27    1.09

 O  PERU         10680     16490       16490      16749      1.57      16490      16082      16470      16749      1.57    0.62

 O  U KING       14289     13518       13518      14985     10.85      13518      14301      14861      14985     10.85    0.56

 O  HG KONG      18507     16216       16216       8657    -46.61      16216       8959       8939       8657    -46.61    0.32


 O  _ANDEAN      22036     30296       30296      27454     -9.38      30296      27628      27828      27454     -9.38    1.02

 O  _ASEAN       28976     11964       11964      16599     38.74      11964      18849      16484      16599     38.74    0.62