Cotton On-Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 31
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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  8/3/01
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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    |  8/3/01  |  Week
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|October  '01      1,278        -94       1290        175      4,242       173
|December '01      9,285         28     16,032         96     40,396     2,222
|March    '02     19,457        -45      9,307          0      7,152       206
|May      '02     11,306        -78      3,108         55      4,821        91
|July     '02     17,106       -212        570          1      3,500        94
|October  '02      1,914         64        140        -11        193         0
|December '02      1,693        -48        154        -50      2,637        11
|March    '03        248         30          0          0        120         0
|May      '03        356         59          0          0         18         0
|July     '03        376         30          0          0          0         0
|December '03         80          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       63,099        -266    30,601        266     63,079     2,797
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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
|8/9/01
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