Cotton On-Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 29
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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  7/19/02
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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   |  From
|            |  Sales   |  Prev.   |  Purchs. |  Prev.   |          |  Prev.
|On:         |          |  Week    |          |  Week    |  7/19/02 |  Week
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|July     '02          0          0          0          0          0       -89
|October  '02      2,207       -102        346         25      3,335      -341
|December '02      6,109     -1,102      7,551       -868     55,308    -2,063
|March    '03      9,121        -87        851         28      8,407       287
|May      '03      7,825        142      1,486        -21      4,683       408
|July     '03     12,959        418        558         -5      2,014        80
|October  '03      2,465        195         71         -6        110         4
|December '03      2,950        155         50          2        866        21
|March    '04        170          0          5          0         93         0
|May      '04          0          0          0          0         17         0
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|   Totals:       43,806       -381     10,918       -845     74,833    -1,693
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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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 (646) 746-9775.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|7/25/02
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