TURKEY OUSTS CHINA AS TOP IMPORTER OF US COTTON
January 1st, 2014
WHILE Turkey has beaten out China as the United States' top cotton export market, the US industry does not expect the shift to last.Turkey has received 1.68 million bales (about 0.38 million tonnes) and China 1.4 million bales of the USA's total commitment (cotton already shipped plus contracts for cotton delivery not yet shipped) of 6.95 million bales for the 2013-2014 crop year, figures from the US Department of Agriculture show. “China is down rather than... that they're [Turkey] up,” said Jon Devine, senior economist at North Carolina, US-based ...
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