Cotton On-Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 35
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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  8/30/02
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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    |  8/30/02 |  Week
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|October  '02      1,559         93        424        -76      2,518      -244
|December '02      5,352       -174      8,073         30     48,752      -798
|March    '03      9,513        433      1,092        -45      8,756        68
|May      '03      8,641        120      1,450        -44      6,327       449
|July     '03     13,112       -126        553        -35      2,451        65
|October  '03      2,843         19        102        -40        156         0
|December '03      3,133        -47         50        -60      1,030         0
|March    '04        179          0          0          0         93         0
|May      '04        124        124          0          0         17         0
|July     '04        144        144          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       44,600        586     11,744       -270     70,100      -460
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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
|9/5/02
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