Cotton On-Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 36
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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  9/6/02
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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    |  9/6/02  |  Week
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|October  '02      1,451       -108        393        -31      2,334      -184
|December '02      5,800        448      7,871       -202     48,882       130
|March    '03      9,614        101      1,199        107      8,832        76
|May      '03      8,908        267      1,450          0      6,811       484
|July     '03     13,707        595        553          0      2,852       401
|October  '03      2,849          6        102          0        156         0
|December '03      3,214         81         50          0      1,090        60
|March    '04        219         40          0          0         93         0
|May      '04        124          0          0          0         17         0
|July     '04        144          0          0          0          1         1
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|   Totals:       46,030      1,430     11,618       -126     71,068       968
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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
|9/12/02
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