Cotton On-Call Report

CFTC Form 304 Reports for the week ending October 19,
2001 should be faxed to (202) 418-5527 by the close of
business on Tuesday, October 23, 2001.

|                                Weekly Report No. 41
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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  10/12/01
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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    |  10/12/01|  Week
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|October  '01          0         -8         11        -14          0        -9
|December '01      6,825       -595*    16,743     -1,081*    33,696    -2,431
|March    '02     16,479       -818*     8,973       -543     10,708       494
|May      '02     10,322       -310*     3,067          0      5,776        70
|July     '02     16,237       -449*       808         -2      4,750       429
|October  '02      1,882       -130        140          0        177        14
|December '02      2,318        106        207          0      3,645       134
|March    '03      1,007          0          0          0        351        78
|May      '03        631          3          0          0        215         2
|July     '03        895          0          0          0        107         7
|October  '03         11          0          0          0          0         0
|December '03         80          0          0          0          0         0
|             ------------------------------------------------------------------
|   Totals:       56,687     -2,201*    29,949     -1,640*    59,425    -1,212
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|2/ CFTC Form 304 Reports for the week ending October 19, 2001 should be faxed
|   to (202) 418-5527 by the close of business on Tuesday, October 23, 2001.
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|* Changes from 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 (917) 225-7817.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|10/18/01
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