Cotton On-Call Report


|                                Weekly Report No. 13
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|      "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
|      reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of  3/29/02
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|                                 (In Contracts)
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|            |                                           |    Open Futures
|            |        Call Cotton Based New York         | Contracts - New York
|            |                                           |   Cotton Exchange
|Futures     |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
|            |  Unfixed |  Change  |  Unfixed |  Change  |  At      |  Change
|Based       |  Call    |  From    |  Call    |  From    |  Close 2/|  From
|            |  Sales   |  Prev.   |  Purchs. |  Prev.   |          |  Prev.
|On:         |          |  Week    |          |  Week    |  3/28/02 |  Week
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|May      '02      3,849        -92      4,267        353     22,403    -3,708
|July     '02      9,485       -160      2,987         87     21,078     1,191
|October  '02      2,407       -155        191          0        727         7
|December '02      4,031       -116      4,216      1,956     16,640       140
|March    '03      2,499        264         86          1      1,681        57
|May      '03      1,819        209         82          0      1,313         4
|July     '03      2,340        315        393          4        780         0
|October  '03        448        142          0          0         38         0
|December '03        611        101          0          0        171        39
|March    '04          0          0          0          0         25        25
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|   Totals:       27,489        508     12,222      2,401     64,856    -2,245
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
|2/ The New York Board of Trade was closed for a holiday on 3/29/02.
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|This report is published by the Commission's Division of Economic Analysis.
|If you have any questions concerning this report, call
Vincent G. Varisano,
|Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (201) 234-6922.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|4/4/02
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