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  7/27/01
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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    |  7/27/01 |  Week
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|October  '01      1,372        220      1,115       -190      4,069       132
|December '01      9,257        430     15,936        -21     38,174    -2,193
|March    '02     19,502         32*     9,307         64      6,946        13
|May      '02     11,384       -435      3,053          0      4,730        -7
|July     '02     17,318        -53        569         39      3,406        86
|October  '02      1,850          0        151          0        193         0
|December '02      1,741         59        204          0      2,626        44
|March    '03        218         82          0          0        120         0
|May      '03        297          0          0          0         18         0
|July     '03        346        130          0          0          0         0
|December '03         80         80          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       63,365        545*    30,335       -108     60,282    -1,925
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|* 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 (212) 488-1311.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|8/2/01
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