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  8/31/01
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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    |  8/31/01 |  Week
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|October  '01      1,108         91      1,086        -18      3,521      -252
|December '01      8,452        108     17,473        468     43,603       795
|March    '02     19,122       -122      9,458        145      7,850        28
|May      '02     11,259         31      2,999        200      5,010        75
|July     '02     17,140       -475        633          9      3,709       -64
|October  '02      2,052         30        140          0        222        22
|December '02      2,228        111        144          0      2,869        26
|March    '03        936        475          0          0        163         1
|May      '03        636        127          0          0        216         0
|July     '03        893        231          0          0         52        13
|December '03         80          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       63,906        607     31,933        804     67,215       644
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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
|9/6/01
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