Cotton: Consumption in ECA countries, prewar average, 1947-48, and 1948–49: spindles, 1938 and 1948 1 Cotton: Stocks as of August 1, by countries, for specified years 1 Cotton: Stocks as of August 1, by countries, for specified years —Continued 2 Bales of 478 pounds net, except for running bales for the United States. Preliminary estimates. 4 China includes Manchuria. Pakistan is included with India except for 1947 and 1948. Estimates for "up country" stocks are included in the totals for all three countries. ! Preliminary and partially estimated. Bales of 478 pounds net, except for running bales for the United States. Includes estimates for noncommercial consumption and for cotton burned or otherwise destroyed. Cotton: Supply and distribution in the United States, 1947-48 1. 1 Year beginning August 1. 2 Domestic cotton in running bales; others in equivalent bales of 500 pounds gross weight. 3 Includes both American upland and American-Egyptian varieties. Principally from Mexico and Pakistan. Ginnings August to July, with an adjustment for "city crop," which includes rebaled samples, cotton salvaged from fire damage, etc. 6 Net imports, excluding 10,066 bales reexported. 7 Adjusted slightly in "domestic" and "other foreign" amounts in order to balance figures. Cotton: Exports, by principal producing countries, for specified years1 3 Year beginning Aug. 1. Preliminary and partially estimated. 2 Bales of 478 pounds net, except for running bales for the United States. 5 China includes Manchuria. Pakistan is included in India except for 1947-48. Cotton; Exports, by principal exporting countries, by season, 1934-47 1 Bales of 478 pounds not, except for running bales for the United States. ? Preliminary and partially estimated. 3 Exports from Bombay only. Cotton: Exports from the United States, by countries of destination, by specified months Total.. 1 Running bales. 2 Preliminary. Less than 59 bales. 0 62 .2 .6 .6 2.5 4.1 5.6 1.9 7.4 8.0 8.9 133. 1 163. 8 229. 6 215. 4 161. 5 261. 2 155. 1 204. 8 132. 9 148. 6114. 6 170. 9 246. 2 428. 1 Cotton: Estimated supplies available for export from producing and exporting countries, 4 Equivalent to 4 months' consumption except in the case of Southern Hemisphere countries where 10 months' consumption is the basis and other Africa where consumption does not provide a suitable basis and a reduction of one-third in the Aug. 1, 1948, stock is assumed. Total supply minus consumption and working stocks. 1 Cotton: Estimated requirements for import into consuming countries, 1948–49 1 Excluding Turkey. 7 Includes estimated import requirements of 900,000 bales for India, 200,000 for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 200,000 for the United States, and 37,000 for other countries which have a surplus of domestic cotton to export but must also import specific types of cotton from other countries. |