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Monthly Press Release Besides the Outlook of world cotton market made available to Infocomm users by the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), ICAC also produces press releases relating to the state of the international cotton market.
May 2008: No Growth in World Cotton Mill Use and Production Expected in 2008/09 15th April 2008: Cotton's Share to Decline in 2009 April 2008: World Cotton Price is Projected Higher in 2008/09 March 2008: World Cotton Prices Surge in February to the Highest Since August 1997 February 2008: World cotton stocks are projected to decline further in 2008/09 January 2008: Cotton Area Projected Stable in 2008/09 December 2007: Global Cotton Mill Use Increasing More Slowly in 2007/08 November 2007: World Cotton Stocks Expected to Decline in 2007/08 October 2007: Projected Increase in World Cotton Trade in 2007/08 September 2007: Record Production and Mill Use in Asia Projected July 2007: Cotton Prices Rising June 2007: Opportunities for Increased Trade in Cotton Textiles May 2007: Chinese Cotton Imports Projected to Rise in 2007/08 April 2007: World Cotton Production Forecast Unchanged in 2007/08 March 2007: Record 2006/07 Production Forecast in South America

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Characteristics	- Description and technical features - Origin and history
Crop	- Cultivation - Yields - Cotton pests and diseases - Glossary
Quality	- United States cotton standards - Examples of other national standards - Classification of cotton fibres
Uses	- Major uses of cotton fibres - Major uses of cottonseeds
Market	- Cotton production - Consumption - International trade in cotton - Fair Trade Cotton Market
Chain	- Brief overiew of world cotton chain - Production and marketing of cotton in China - The US cotton industry - Cotton marketing systems in Eastern Europe and Central - Asia (with special reference to Uzbekistan) - Cotton sectors in Africa - Cotton chain in Pakistan
Companies	- International organisations (inter- and non-governmental) - Professional associations and national bodies - Companies
Technology	- Spinning - Further finishing processes
Prices	- Price developments - The futures market and contracts - E-commerce
Economic policies	- International Cotton Advisory Committee - Overview of selected trade and economic policies - Trade disputes and negotiations - Cotton Issue at the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference - WTO Cotton Sub-Committee

Selected sources of statistics

- FAOSTAT Databases
- UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics
- UNCTAD TRAINS
- UNCTAD Commodity Price Bulletin
- International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC)
- Eléments statistiques sur le coton en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre (PDF, French only): OECD - Sahel and West Africa Club
- Current World Production, Market and Trade Reports: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Cotton - World Statistics: International Cotton Advisory Committee
- Cotton: Review of the World Situation: International Cotton Advisory Committee
- International Cotton Industry Statistics: International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF)

References

Facteurs de performance et de compétitivité des exploitations cotonnières au Brésil, aux États-Unis et au Mali (P. Mendez del Villar, L. RA Alvez , M. Sadio Keita) : Cahiers Agricultures vol. 15, n° 1, janvier-février 2006. To access the summary or the table of contents of the issue in English, please click the relevant link.

Cotton - Marketing Setting, Trade Policies, and Issues (J. Baffes): World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3218, February 2004.

Commodity Profile: Cotton, ICAC staff papers, 2004

Cotton Facts: CCIC and CFC, 2003

Country Profile - Chad: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2003

Industry and Trade Summary - Cotton: US International Trade Commission, January 2001

Comparing the Seed Cotton and Wheat Marketing Chains in Sindh (H.R. Lohano, L.E.D. Smith, M. Stockbridge): The Pakistan Development Review, Spring 1998

Cotton Ginners Handbook: United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, December 1994

Training Manual on Cotton Trading Operations: UNCTAD/WTO International Trade Centre, 1989

Que sais-je? Le coton et l'industrie cotonnière (P. de Calan), 1996

Atlas on regional integration in West Africa: ECOWAS-SWAC/OECD (August 2006)

Clever Links

General information on cotton

Cotton-Forum (Particularly the documentation section)

Gossypium spp. - Cotton: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

Cotton - Gossypium hirsutum: Texas A&M University, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology

Les modifications du panorama cotonnier de 1949 à 1999: Dagris

Le rôle des facteurs techniques: Dagris - French only

Les saisons du coton: Dagris - French only

Pest Management: National Cotton Council of America

How to Manage Pests - Cotton: University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources, IPM Program

Cotton Homepage: University of Georgia, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Cotton Diseases: University of Georgia, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Cotton Fact Sheets: Cotton Australia

Cotton Homepage: Queensland Government (Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries)

Story of Cotton: Cottonjourney.com

Agritrade, news and analysis of events affecting ACP agricultural trade: the Cotton sector

Quality

United States Standards for the Color Grade of American Upland Cotton: United States Department of Agriculture (5 August 1993)

United States Standards for the Leaf Grade of American Upland Cotton: United States Department of Agriculture (5 August 1993)

US standards for length of staple of cotton: United States Department of Agriculture (12 July 1985)

Cotton Standardization: United States Department of Agriculture

Cotton Classification: United States Department of Agriculture

Cotton Classification - Understanding the Data: United States Department of Agriculture (July 2004)

Le classement: un savoir faire et une technologie: Dagris - French only

Classification of Upland Cotton: Cotton Incorporated

Classification of American Pima Cotton: Cotton Incorporated

Cotton standardization and grading - Pakistan: United Nations Development Programme

Tanzania Cotton Board

International Bureau for the Standardisation of Man Made Fibres

Uses

Hampton Inn Convention Center -- Antonine,Oral: March, 27, 2003

Le tissage, comment ça marche?: Tenthorey S.A - French only

L'huile de coton: 5 ème huile alimentaire dans le monde: Dagris - French only

Chronique des huiles végétales et de leurs dérivés: Dagris - French only

Market

Cotton - World Markets and Trade (Feb. 2005): United States Department of Agriculture; Archives since 1996: Cotton: World Markets and Trade

Evolution de la consommation mondiale dans la filature: Dagris - French only

Cotton and Wool Yearbook: United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service (pdf: 3,470 KB)

World Cotton Supply, Use and Trade: United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)

Importance of Cotton Production and Trade in West Africa: Sahel and West Africa Club/OCDE (March 2004)
   - Power Point presentation
   - Text of the presentation

Chains

Chad Cotton Sector Reform - A Case Study on Poverty and Social Impact Analysis: World Bank

Cotton Sector Reform in Chad - An Institutional Analysis: World Bank

African Economic Outlook: Chad (OECD 2005 - 2006)

Reforming the Cotton Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: World Bank

On Burkina Faso, Benin, Chad, Ivory Coast, Mali, and Niger, please refer to izf.net website - French only

Les filières partenaires: Dagris - French only

Cotton - profiles of a resourceful industry: National Cotton Council of America

Le coton à Madagascar: CITE - French only

L'avenir des filières cotonnières ouest africaines : quelles perspectives après Cancun? - French only

Projet de développement d'une culture de coton génétiquement modifié au Mali: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries - French only

Programme de promotion du coton biologique au Mali, Rapport annuel d'activités 2005 (Bamako, février 2006) - French only

Analyse économique de l'impact de la recherche sur le coton au Niger: Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Economics (Dec. 2001) - French only

"Cotton Taxation in Uzbekistan", World Bank, August 2005.

Market intelligence and recent information as regards cotton in Western Africa, USDA, December 21, 2005

International, professional, trade and research organisations

International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC)

OECD - Sahel and West Africa Club

International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

Committee for International Co-operation between Cotton Associations (CICCA)

Australian Cotton Research Institute (Australia)

China National Cotton Exchange (China)

California Cotton Ginners Association and the California Cotton Growers Association (United States)

Cotton Council International (CCI) (United States)

National Cotton Council of America (United States)

National Cottonseed Products Association (United States)

Supima Association of America (United States)

US Cotton Board (United States)

Association Française Cotonnière (AFCOT) (France)

Liverpool Cotton Association (United Kingdom)

Companies

Otto Stadtlander GmbH (Germany)

Colly Cotton Marketing Pty Ltd (Australia)

Namoi Cotton Cooperative Ltd. (Australia)

Queensland Cotton Corporation Ltd (Australia)

Weil Brothers Cotton Aust Pty Ltd (Australia)

Weil Cotton Inc (Australia)

Louis Dreyfus Cotton International NV (Belgium)

Chinatex (China)

Daewoo Corporation (Republic of Korea)

Industrial Promotion Services, IPS (Ivory Cost)

Allenberg Cotton Co (United States)

Anderson Clayton Corp (United States)

Calcot Ltd. (United States)

Cargill (United States)

Dunavant Enterprises, Inc (United States)

Ecom Agroindustrial Corp Ltd (United States)

Jess Smith & sons Cotton Ltd (United States)

Paul Reinhart Inc (United States)

Plains Cotton Cooperative Association (United States)

Staple Cotton Cooperative Association (United States)

DAGRIS (France)

Devcot SA (France)

Mambo Commodities (France)

Indutech Spa (Italy)

Toyo Cotton (Japan) Co (Japan)

Toyoshima & Co Ltd (Japan)

Uzprommashimpeks (Uzbekistan)

Central Cotton Company Limited (United Kingdom)

Plexus Cotton Ltd (United Kingdom)

Weil Brothers & Stern Ltd (United Kingdom)

Olam International Ltd (Singapore)

The Sudan Cotton Company Ltd (Sudan)

Cogecot Cotton Company SA (Switzerland)

Ecom Agroindustrial Corp Ltd (Switzerland)

Glencore International

Cargill Tanzania Ltd (Tanzania)

Etem Ozsoy Tarim Ticaret Ve Sanayi As (Turkey)

Cargill Zimbabwe Pvt Ltd (Zimbabwe)

Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)

Industry directories

http://www.cotton-net.com/directory/

http://www.textilefiberspace.com/trade/index.html

http://www.info-textile.com/

http://www.textile.fr:81/fet/annuaire/index.htm

http://www3.kompass.com/kinl/fr/

Technology

Lectures on Mercerization: textileinfo.com

Glossary terms - textiles: textile.org.uk (click on Glossary of textile terms)

Cotton Fibers: Xiao Gao and Praveen Kumar Jangala

National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)

International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA)

Prices

Cotton Outlook

La volatilité des prix sur le marché mondial du coton: International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC)

Le coton africain dans le marché mondial: International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC)

La compétitivité du coton de la zone franc dans le marché mondial: International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC)

L’Impact sur l’Economie Malienne du Nouveau Mécanisme de Fixation du Prix du Coton Graine, Oxfam/Cirad/IER Ecofil case study in Mali August 2005

The world cotton market: prices and distortions: ICAC

The WTO's cotton crisis and the crisis in commodities, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, August 2006

Economic policies

Accomplishing a sustainable agricultural model for Europe through the reformed CAP - the tobacco, olive oil, cotton and sugar sectors: Communication from the European Commission to the Council and European Parliament

The Cotton Sector: Working paper of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture

The Changing Pattern of International Trade in Textiles and Clothing - Implications of the Introduction of the Agreement of Textiles and Clothing (ATC) on the African Textiles and Clothing Sector: International Trade Centre (ITC)

Textiles and Clothing: What Happens After 2005?: International Trade Centre (ITC)

The Multilateral Trading System and the New Political Economy for Textiles and Clothing: International Trade Centre (ITC)

Briefing Room - Cotton: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Globalisation in textiles: corporate strategy and competitive advantage: The third annual Pasold lecture, London School of Economics

Les producteurs de coton des pays CFA face aux subventions américaines et européennes: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

WTO, NEPAD, UEMOA and the Subsidies to Agriculture: Translated from the opinion column published in "Marchés tropicaux et Méditerranéens" of 21 June 2002

Cotton after Cancun: Independent contribution to an initiative of the Sahel and
West African Club (OECD), March 2004

The Impact of US Subsidies on the World Cotton Market - A Reassessment: B. Shepherd, Groupe d'économie mondiale, Institut d'études politiques de Paris (March 2004)

For an EU-Africa cotton partnership: P. Lamy, EU-Africa Forum on cotton (5 juillet 2004)

EU-Africa Cotton Forum: Pascal Lamy proposes a joint strategy for African countries

Cotton: EU-Africa Forum to outline roadmap supporting African Cotton (2 July 2004)

Préserver un futur au coton africain : la revendication légitime d'équité dans les échanges mondiaux ne sera pas suffisante: French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)

Ideas Centre International Trade Development Economic Governance Advisory Services

Subisdies and Regulatory Reform in West African Cotton: What are the Development Stakes? (Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, March 2007 - PDF file)

Production and trade policies affecting the cotton industry: ICAC, September 2006

Partners

Enhanced cooperation is being established between the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) and UNCTAD to promote information exchanges and transparency on the cotton market. In this regard, information on international cotton market is regularly updated as the ICAC makes available to Infocomm an abstract of its monthly outlook as regards the World Cotton Situation. For more information, please consult ICAC website.

Last updated on May 13, 2008