Cotton On-Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 32
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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  8/10/01
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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    |  8/10/01 |  Week
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|October  '01      1,005       -273      1,243        -47      3,930      -312
|December '01      8,748       -537     16,957        925     41,938     1,542
|March    '02     19,317       -140      9,307          0      7,721       569
|May      '02     11,396         90      3,045        -63      4,790       -31
|July     '02     17,510        404        574          4      3,526        26
|October  '02      2,001         87        140          0        195         2
|December '02      1,913        220        144        -10      2,697        60
|March    '03        461        213          0          0        145        25
|May      '03        509        153          0          0        216       198
|July     '03        662        286          0          0         20        20
|December '03         80          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       63,602        503     31,410        809     65,178     2,099
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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
|8/16/01
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