Cotton On-Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 33
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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  8/17/01
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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    |  8/17/01 |  Week
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|October  '01        914        -91      1,254         11      3,851       -79
|December '01      8,476       -272     16,923        -34     42,654       716
|March    '02     19,444        127      9,313          6      7,756        35
|May      '02     11,146       -250      2,800       -245      4,884        94
|July     '02     17,715        205        624         50      3,576        50
|October  '02      2,008          7        140          0        195         0
|December '02      2,045        132        144          0      2,694        -3
|March    '03        478         17          0          0        162        17
|May      '03        509          0          0          0        216         0
|July     '03        662          0          0          0         20         0
|December '03         80          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       63,477       -125     31,198       -212     66,008       830
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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 (212) 488-1311.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|8/23/01
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