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Thursday, July 22, 2010

AMERICAN PIMA WEEKLY EXPORT REPORT

For the week ending July 22, 2010 and shipments thru July 16, 2010

July 22 — Net new export sales for the week were reported as 0 bales verses 900 bales reported the previous week. Current registered export sales for the 2009/10 crop year are now 680,800 versus 680,800 reported the previous week. This level of sales is 246% of the sales level at the same time last year when 276,500 bales in sales had already been registered. Current shipments stand at 341% of last year with 669,800 bales shipped versus 196,600 bales shipped at the same time last year.

There were 0 bales in purchases this past week.

There were 0 bales in destination changes this past week.

There were 0 bales in cancellations this past week.

Export shipments this past week totaled 1,500 bales versus 2,100 during the previous week. Shipments this past week went to China (400), Thailand (400), Indonesia (300), India (200), Bangladesh (100) and Mexico (100).

The top five leading importers for the 2009/10 crop year are led by China with purchases of 321,900 bales. India, Pakistan, Japan and Indonesia round out the top five with purchases of 124,800 bales, 69,700 bales, 24,700 bales, and 22,900 bales respectively. These five nations account for 83 % of all the export based purchases of U.S. Pima made to date this year.

There were 2,000 bales of new forward sales this week from Germany (1,800) and Japan (200). The current new crop sales totals stand at 87,200 bales and 0 bales respectively for 2010/11 and 2011/12.

The USDA report can be found here: http://www.fas.usda.gov/export-sales/cottfax.htm

Export Sales Summary

Destination 07/22/10* 2008/09 2007/08 2006/07 2005/06
Belgium 2.6 0.2 6.3 4.6 7.1
Germany 12.7 14.5 16.8 20.4 18.3
Italy 5.4 2.1 10.6 14.3 11.2
Portugal 0.0 0.1 8.6 4.7 1.4
Switzerland 0.0 2.2 8.9 7.4 5.6
Turkey 4.8 8.2 16.5 6.4 24.9
Other Western Europe 0.0 0.0 4.4 1.0 0.6
Europe Totals 25.5 27.3 72.1 58.8 69.1
Bangladesh 9.5 9.0 13.7 11.8 2.2
China 321.9 57.5 176.4 163.6 246.3
India 124.8 27.2 146.7 91.6 75.0
Indonesia 22.9 20.3 68.0 59.4 41.3
Japan 24.7 14.8 53.3 49.8 44.0
Korean Republic 12.6 4.7 22.5 21.8 10.8
Pakistan 69.7 26.8 159.0 113.6 55.9
Taiwan 10.9 2.9 29.8 31.3 7.6
Thailand 18.6 8.8 24.1 22.1 15.3
Other Asia and Oceania 1.9 17.1 18.4 6.7 4.2
Asia Totals 617.5 189.1 711.9 571.7 502.6
Brazil 0.9 2.0 5.3 5.5 3.0
Canada 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Chile 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
Ecuador 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4
Guatemala 0.0 0.8 0.1 0.0 0.5
Honduras 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
Mexico 3.3 1.2 0.3 0.5 2.4
Peru 14.9 2.4 28.2 13.6 1.9
Salvador 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
Venezuela 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5
Western Hemisphere Totals 19.5 6.6 33.9 19.6 10.1
Rest of World 18.4 3.8 14.6 2.4 0.0
World Totals 680.8 226.8 832.5 652.5 581.8

Source - USDA-FAS U.S. Export Sales - July 22, 2010
1996 - 2010 sales listed in thousand running bales
* 2009/10 sales listed in running bales through July 15, 2010
NOTE: The figures represented in this table may not exactly match those presented in the USDA-FAS report due to variances in rounding. The information contained herein should only be used for reference purposes.

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