Cotton On-Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 30
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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  7/26/02
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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    |  7/26/02 |  Week
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|October  '02      2,329         85*       322         15*     3,322       -13
|December '02      5,856       -265*     7,483        -54*    55,382        74
|March    '03      9,158         37        762        -89      8,611       204
|May      '03      8,044        219      1,459        -27      4,754        71
|July     '03     12,991         32        558          0      2,112        98
|October  '03      2,566        101         45        -26        110         0
|December '03      2,967         17         50          0        930        64
|March    '04        170          0          0         -5         93         0
|May      '04          0          0          0          0         17         0
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|   Totals:       44,081        226*    10,679       -186*    75,331       498
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
|* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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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
|8/1/02
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