Foreign Cotton Consumption/Production Gap Reduced

by Leslie Meyer, James Kiawu, and Stephen MacDonald

The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cotton projections for 2011/12 indicate that the gap between foreign consumption and production is projected to decrease significantly this season and fall below 5 million bales for the first time since 2004/05 (fig. 1).

Keywords: forecast; imports; exports; textile; fiber; supply & use; bales; cotton; trade deficit

In this publication...

• Foreign Cotton Consumption/Production Gap Reduced
• Table 1--U.S. cotton supply and use estimates
• Table 2--World cotton supply and use estimates
• Table 3--U.S. fiber supply
• Table 4--U.S. fiber demand
• Table 5--U.S. and world fiber prices
• Table 6--U.S. textile imports, by fiber
• Table 7--U.S. textile exports, by fiber
• Table 8--U.S. cotton textile imports, by origin
• Table 9--U.S. cotton textile exports, by destination
• Table 10--Acreage, yield, and production estimates, 2011

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