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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001564590-18-024472
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20181018
ITEM INFORMATION:		Regulation FD Disclosure
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20181018
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20181018

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			UNIFI INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000100726
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	TEXTILE MILL PRODUCTS [2200]
		IRS NUMBER:				112165495
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NY
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0626

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-10542
		FILM NUMBER:		181128842

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		7201 WEST FRIENDLY RD
		STREET 2:		P O BOX 19109
		CITY:			GREENSBORO
		STATE:			NC
		ZIP:			27419-9109
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9192944410

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		7201 W FRIENDLY RD
		STREET 2:		PO BOX 19109
		CITY:			GREENSBORO
		STATE:			NC
		ZIP:			24719-9109

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	AUTOMATED ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19720906
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;">&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-left:15.38%;text-indent:-15.38%;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold;;font-size:11pt;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">On October 18, 2018, Kelley Drye &amp; Warren LLP, special outside counsel to Unifi Manufacturing, Inc. (&#8220;UMI&#8221;), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unifi, Inc., issued a press release announcing the filing, on behalf of UMI and another domestic yarn producer, of trade petitions with the United States Department of Commerce and the United States International Trade Commission alleging that dumped and subsidized imports of polyester textured yarn from China and India are causing material injury to the domestic polyester textured yarn industry.&nbsp;&nbsp;A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">WASHINGTON, October 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, two major U.S. synthetic yarn producers &#8211; Unifi Manufacturing, Inc. (&#8220;Unifi&#8221;) and Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, America (&#8220;Nan Ya&#8221;) &#8211; filed petitions alleging that dumped and subsidized imports of polyester textured yarn from China and India are causing material injury to the domestic industry.&nbsp;&nbsp;The purpose of these petitions is to establish conditions of fair competition in the U.S. market.&nbsp;&nbsp;The petitioning domestic producers are asking the U.S. government to investigate the dumping, subsidies and injury and to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on the imports of polyester textured yarn from the subject countries.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">The petitions were filed concurrently with the United States Department of Commerce (the &#8220;Commerce Department&#8221;) and the United States International Trade Commission (the &#8220;USITC&#8221;).</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;"><a name="_AEIOULastRenderedPageBreakAEIOU2"></a>The filing is in response to surging volumes of aggressively-priced polyester textured yarn imports from China and India.&#160; Subject import volumes increased at an astounding rate over the last five years, growing from approximately 38.4 million pounds in 2013 to 68.9 million pounds in 2017 (an increase of approximately 79%).&#160; In conducting its injury analysis, the USITC will focus specifically on the effect of the subject imports from 2015 </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">through the first half of 2018.&#160; These imports grew by approximately 11.5% over the three-year period ending in 2017 (from 61.7 million pounds in 2015 to 68.9 million pounds in 2017) and have continued to rapidly enter the U.S. market in the first half of 2018, expanding from 34.8 million pounds in the first half of 2017 to 41.7 million pounds in the first half of 2018 (an increase of 20.1%).&#160; The subject imports undersold the domestic polyester textured yarn industry, taking sales from and exerting considerable downward pricing pressure on U.S. producers.</font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">As a result of increasing volumes of low-priced imports, the condition of the domestic polyester textured industry has suffered.&nbsp;&nbsp;U.S. producers have experienced declining domestic production and shipment volumes and deteriorating financial performance as a result of the lost sales and price depression caused by the subject imports.&nbsp;&nbsp;Foreign producers of polyester textured yarn also continue to threaten the domestic polyester textured yarn industry with additional injury due to their massive and growing production capacity and extensive unused capacity that will be used to export large volumes of unfairly low-priced and subsidized products to the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;The injury to the domestic polyester textured yarn industry is likely to continue if duties are not imposed to offset these unfair trading practices.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">&#8220;The substantial increase in unfairly-traded polyester textured yarn from China and India has harmed U.S. manufacturers and their workers,&#8221; according to Paul Rosenthal of Kelley Drye &amp; Warren LLP, counsel for the petitioning companies.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Trade relief is essential to ensuring that the domestic polyester textured yarn industry can recover from its injured and vulnerable state, thrive, and fairly compete.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">FACT SHEET</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Antidumping and countervailing duties: <font style="font-weight:normal;">Antidumping duties are intended to offset the amount by which a product is sold at less than fair value, or &#8220;dumped,&#8221; in the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;The margin of dumping is calculated by the Commerce Department.&nbsp;&nbsp;Estimated duties in the amount of the dumping are collected from importers at the time of importation.&nbsp;&nbsp;Countervailing duties are intended to offset the unfair subsidies that are provided by foreign governments and benefit the production of a particular good.&nbsp;&nbsp;The USITC, an independent agency, will determine whether the domestic polyester textured yarn industry is materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of the unfairly traded imports.</font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Next steps: <font style="font-weight:normal;">The Commerce Department will determine whether to initiate the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations within 20 days of today&#8217;s filing of the petitions, and the USITC will reach a preliminary determination of material injury or threat of material injury within 45 days of today&#8217;s filing.&nbsp;&nbsp;The entire investigative process will take approximately one year, with final determinations of dumping, subsidization, and injury likely occurring by the end of 2019.</font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;"><font style="font-weight:normal;">terephthalate).&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">Polyester textured yarn is produced through a texturing process, which imparts special properties to the filaments of the yarn, including stretch, bulk, strength, moisture absorption, insulation, and the appearance of a natural fiber.&#160; The petitions</font><font style="font-weight:normal;"> include all forms of </font><font style="font-weight:normal;">polyester textured yarn</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">, regardless of surface texture or appearance, yarn density and thickness (as measured in denier), number of filaments,</font><font style="font-weight:normal;"> number of plies,</font><font style="font-weight:normal;"> finish (luster), </font><font style="font-weight:normal;">cross section, color, dye method,</font><font style="font-weight:normal;"> texturing method, </font><font style="font-weight:normal;">or packing method (suc</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">h as spindles, tubes, or beams).</font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Petitioning companies: <font style="font-weight:normal;">The petitioning companies are Unifi Manufacturing, Inc. and Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, America, represented by Kelley Drye &amp; Warren LLP.</font></p>
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