Cotton Fibre Market Update

INDIAN UNION BUDGET FOR 2011-12 WAS PRESENTED YESTERDAY. IT DID NOT HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANT RELIEF FOR TEXTILES EXCEPT EXCISE DUTY ON YARN IS REDUCED. “SEZ” TEXTILE PARKS WERE SUBJECTED TO CORPORATE TAX WITHDRAWING ALL CONCESSIONS ONCE DECLARED ! GUJARAT WAS MORE AFFECTED AS 33% OF SEZ ARE IN GUJARAT.

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PAKISTAN :.

LEAN BUSINESS WAS SEEN IN COTTON MARKET ON THURSDAY AS MILLS REMAINED ON SIDELINES IN ANTICIPATION OF FURTHER DECLINE IN PRICES. OFFICIAL SPOT RATE WAS SAME AT RS. 11,800 PER MAUND. DEALS  MATERIALISED IN THE RANGE OF RS. 11,250~12,700 PER MAUND.

BUYERS ARE HOPING THAT COTTON PRICES WILL DROP DOWN IN COMING DAYS AS INTERNATIONAL MARKET SENTIMENT IS ALSO BEARISH. SO, THEY ARE WAITING FOR MARKET TO SETTLE DOWN BEFORE PLACING NEW ORDERS. DESPITE OF ALL THE ANALYSIS AND SITUATION, ONE THING IS FOR SURE THAT DEMAND IS MORE IN COMPARISON OF SUPPLY WHICH WILL KEEP COTTON IN REASONABLE RANGE.
PUNJAB AND SINDH CROP PRICES WERE IN RANGE OF US CENTS 160~181 PER LB. (RS. 11,250~12,700 PER MAUND)

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MARKET OUTLOOK

COTTON MARKET SENTIMENT WAS FIRM TODAY AND PRICES CONTINUE TO CLIMB ONCE AGAIN. GUJARAT WAS 58500/- THIS MORNING NORTH WAS UP RS 60-80 I

COTTON RATES WERE FIRM  AT 58500-59000/- IN GUJARAT AND SELLERS WERE TIGHT.. MAHARASHTRA/ MP QUALITY HAS VARIATIONS IN LATE PICKINGS AND RATES DROPPED BY RS 1000/- TO 58500  -59000  /-.

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Call for a global ban on apparel sandblasting

The International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation (ITGLWF) and global apparel buyers and manufacturers issue this joint Call to Action urging an industry-wide ban on the practice of sandblasting in the garment industry

Apparel sandblasting involves projecting fine sand with compressed air to create a worn look on denim and other garments. Sandblasting can be extremely damaging to the health of workers if proper safeguards are not followed, and can lead to a disabling and potentially fatal lung disease called silicosis.

In July 2010, after the impact of sandblasting on workers’ health had come under scrutiny in Turkey, the ITGLWF called for a ban on this process. The ban is an important step toward ensuring that no worker – in any garment factory – faces the threat associated with exposure to crystalline silica.

In September 2010, as a commitment to the health and safety of workers across the apparel industry, Levi Strauss & Co. and Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) became the first to implement a global ban on sandblasting in their supply chains. In so doing, these companies went beyond the ban which the Turkish Ministry had imposed within Turkey and extended the ban to all operations globally. Since then a number of other leading brands and retailers – such as C&A, Carrefour, and Esprit - have also announced the elimination of sandblasting in their supply chains.

The aim of this Call to Action is to ban sandblasting throughout the global garment industry. Signatory companies agree to:

Ban the practice of sandblasting throughout their supply chains including but not limited to the use of aluminium oxide, aluminium silicate, silicon carbide, copper slag and garnet for abrasive blasting;

Work with their suppliers in a transition towards alternative methods, after having established the risks and their means of control;

Take the necessary measures to ensure that the ban is effectively applied throughout their whole supply chain.

This Call to Action is signed and supported by the ITGLWF and the following brands and retailers:

Aurora Fashions, Bestseller, C&A, Carrefour, Esprit, Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M), Inditex, Karen Millen, Levi Strauss & Co, New Look.

The International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation is a Global Union Federation bringing together 217 affiliated organisations in 110 countries.

International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation (ITGLWF)

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Cotton fetches Rs 6,300 per quintal

AKOLA: Just a day after cotton fetched Rs 5,300 in Ralegaon market, farmers who sold cotton at Khamgaon market got Rs 6,300 per quintal on Monday. The record-breaking price was given to the farmers by Priyadarshini Cooperative Spinning Mill of MLA Amrish Patel. The spinning mill has given this price for Mahico's cotton variety 7918.

Elsewhere in the state the farmers are getting anything between Rs 5,300 and 5,800 per quintal of their produce. The sudden rise in price is due to the devastating flood in Australia. Traders felt that due to the floods cotton production will decrease by 50% in Australia. Hence, the rate of cotton produced in India and Maharashtra has shot up. Traders also predicted that cotton garments will cost a little more in coming months.

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Cotton Crop Losses Are Reported in McIntyre/Goondiwindi Area, FCStone Says

Reports from the McIntyre- Goondiwindi cotton-growing region indicated around 5,000 acres may have been lost, FCStone Australia Pty said in an e-mailed report today after recent flooding. Cotton areas may get 5 millimeters to 50 millimeters of rain over the next four to eight days, while reports of mite infestations were causing yield concerns, the report said.

Total Australian planting this season was estimated at about 665,000 hectares (1.6 million acres), Cotton Australia said last month.

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famous for design cotton jacquard bed sheet

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Polyester Filament Prices More Heavily Declining (Weekly Report)

Polyester filament prices began more heavily dropping in the last seven days in China, in line with a reduction of filament fabric production. Staple fiber prices further fell over a new decrease in cotton and spun yarn prices. Polyester prices may continue declining over the short term.

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Cotton price crash hits ginners

The recent fall in cotton prices has taken its toll on ginners who convert cotton into bales form by ginning and pressing. Around 50 per cent of ginners in Gujarat, the largest producer and exporter of cotton, have closed their units in wake of spiralling prices. Most of the ginners had stock cotton in anticipation of further rise in prices.

Cotton prices were at Rs 63,000 a candy two months ago and have now crashed nearly 30 per cent to Rs 43,000 a candy in Mumbai. Cotton was among the best performing assets in 2010 with over 60 per cent returns.

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Cotton Prices to Be Lower in Next Season (Weekly Report)

Cotton prices less strongly declined in the last week. The lack of supply may result in a stabilisation when inventories will have been digested. Production could however sharply rebound in the coming season, while consumption will be further depressed by the recent shift from cotton to man-made fibers, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced.

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COSTING FOR A SPINNING MILL

INTRODUCTION:
It is better to review the basics concepts, costing  methods and techniques and elements of costing before we work out a costing for a spinning mill.
Cost accounting is a system of determining the costs of products or services. It has primarily developed to meet the needs of management.  It provides detailed cost information to various levels of management for efficient performance of their functions.
Financial accounting provides information about profit , loss, cost etc., of the collective activities of the business as a whole. It does not give the data regarding costs by departments, products, processes and sales territories etc. Financial accounting does not fully analyze the losses due to idle time, idle plant capacity, inefficient labour, sub-standard materials, etc. Cost accounting is not restricted to past. It is concerned with the ascertainment of past, present and expected future costs of products manufactured or services supplied. Cost accounting provides detailed cost information to various levels of management for efficient performance of their functions.

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Cotton price crash has doubled the pressure on cotton farmers in India

Cotton price crash has caused three cotton farmers to commit suicide since May 13 in the Vidarbha region in central India.

In speaking to this scribe on May 15, Kishor Tiwari, President of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS), a farmer support group said, two farmers and one farmer committed suicide on May 13 and 14 respectively. Farmers in anticipation of higher prices were stocking up the crop but the market has crashed in India resulting in tragedy. Farmers took their lives due to farming debts and increase in cotton cultivation costs.

Despite record production expected this year in India which is pegged at 32 million bales (170 kg each), Indian government has imposed a quota of 5.5 million bales for export. Farmers are not getting international prices for their harvest. Recently, even traders in local markets are seriously affected, said Mr Tiwari, who blamed the Ministry of Textiles, India for imposing the export quota.

Indian market has been crashing for the past few days. Good quality cotton lint price has come down by over 50%. On May 13th, quality cotton traded at Rupees 38,000 per candy (356 kg). Mr Tiwari said, last month farmers were getting Rupees 7,000 per quintal (100 kg) for seed cotton, which has crashed now to Rupees 3,200 per quintal (100 kg).

He said that he will be leading a delegation of 100 farmers and few farm industry leaders to meet with Mrs. Sonia Gandhi Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance, the coalition group which runs the Government of India on May 20th in New Delhi. The group is planning on a hunger strike if the talks do not take place as planned.

Mr Tiwari reiterated that it is a fact that three deaths have happened in the past two days due to cotton situation in the Vidarbha region in the State of Maharashtra, India. Vidarbha region constitutes about 25% of India cotton cultivation with 22 lakh (2.2 million) hectares planted on an average.

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PART 1 TYPES OF FIBROUS TEXTILES AND STRUCTURES

Natural and man-made fibres: physical properties
M de Araújo, University of Minho, Portugal
 - Introduction
 - Natural fibres
 - Man-made fibres
 - Textile fibres for use in civil engineering applications: an overview
 - Natural textile fibres for use in civil engineering applications
 - Synthetic textile fibres for use in civil engineering applications
 - Fibre-matrix adhesion
 - Sources of further information and advice
 - References

Yarns: Production, processability and properties
R Alagirusamy and A Das, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
 - Introduction
 - Synthetic filament yarns
 - Natural fibre yarns
 - Synthetic yarn manufacture
 - Natural fibre yarn manufacture
 - Yarn parameters on cement reinforcement
 - Conclusions
 - References

Textile structures
R Fangueiro and F Soutinho, University of Minho, Portugal
 - Introduction
 - Planar (2D) textile structures
 - Three-dimensional (3D) textile structures
 - Directionally oriented structures (DOS)
 - Hybrid structures
 - Sources of further information and advice
 - References

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NY market continues to go down

NY futures continued to slide, with July dropping 256 points to close at 144.30 cents, while December gave up 289 points to close at 119.19 cents.

The return of some mill buying for nearby shipment allowed the market to catch its breath for a few days, with July trading as high as 155.12 cents on Wednesday. But the recovery proved to be nothing more than a "dead cat bounce", as mills have since returned to the sidelines and the market has resumed its downtrend.

The US export sales report of this morning displayed a familiar picture, as for every current crop bale that was able to find a home there was another one that got cancelled. Last week 59'500 running bales were sold for the current marketing year, while 61'300 running bales got cancelled, resulting in yet another net reduction of 1'800 running bales. On the other hand commitments for the 2011/12 marketing year continued to grow by 76'000 running bales and now amount to nearly 5.8 million statistical bales.

On Wednesday the USDA provided us with their first detailed estimate for the 2011/12 season. For the first time in six years, the world is expected to produce more than it consumes, thereby reversing a trend of sharply declining stocks.

Since the 2006/07 season global stocks have been reduced by nearly 20 million bales to just 42.5 million bales, which equal a little more than 4 months of global mills use. However, since the statistical snapshot is taken on July 31, most inventories will be nearly depleted by the time new crop comes off the field this fall.

The USDA forecasts world production at an all-time high of 124.7 million bales, which would surpass the record from 2006/07 by around 2.9 million bales. Since the US crop is expected to be more or less unchanged at 18.0 million bales, the rest of the world will have to produce a crop that is 10.2 million bales bigger than in the current season. The USDA believes that China will get to 33 million bales (7.185 million tons), while India will grow a record 27 million bales (34.6 million Indian bales). While this is certainly possible, a lot needs to go right in order to get there.

While production is expected to soar, the USDA counts on continued demand destruction to keep global mill use subdued at just 119.5 million bales. Although that amounts to 3 million bales more than in the current season, it is still 4.3 million shy of the record 123.8 million bales that were consumed during the 2006/07-season.

You may recall that in its December 2007 report the USDA projected global mill use to reach as much as 128.27 million bales in the 2007/08 season. Then the financial crisis happened! But has demand really suffered such a blow that it is nearly 9 million bales below the potential of four seasons ago? We seriously doubt it!

Although retail demand has remained stagnant in the US and Europe in recent years, it has been growing by leaps and bounds elsewhere around the globe, especially in China and India. World population alone has grown by 300 million people over the last four years and is expected to cross the 7 billion people mark by the end of this year. We therefore believe that the consumption number may harbor a positive surprise as we head into the coming season.

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Pakistan - Govt must regulate cotton trade

The government must regulate sale of domestic cotton to a certain extent as speculators in recent months pushed its price high, which hurt textile makers, industry officials said on Tuesday.

“Traders, builders, brokersóeveryone seems to have jumped in the trade,” Jawaid Bilwani, Coordinator of Council of All Pakistan Textile Association told The News. “It has provided some people a way to make quick money by hoarding cotton, creating an artificial shortage and making the price rise.”

The price of cotton has come down by 35 percent in the last three months in tandem with fall in the international market. But the textile makers remain concerned that if price starts moving up again, manipulation will come into play. There is no control over the quantities spinning companies, which use cotton to make yarn, can buy, he said. “This means spinners can literally lift all the cotton, notwithstanding their needs.”

Pakistan produces around 12 million bales of cotton annually whereas its demand stands at 15 million bales. The difference is imported.

Textile makers complain that yarn manufacturers have a monopoly over supplies of their key raw material.

Spinners and the makers of garments, hosiery, bed sheets and linen have been at loggerheads over the export of yarn, the thread used to make cloth. The fight always leads to the question of free-market economy under which export of raw material cannot be hindered.

Bilwani said that spinners should be allowed to buy enough cotton for a maximum of three months. “Excess sales must be registered so that the government knows the situation of market exactly.”

Textile makers complain that their contracts with global buyers are fixed and price fluctuation in yarn midway through manufacturing often forces them to suffer losses.

Naqi Bari, former chairman Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers Association, said that large spinning companies could comfortably raise funds from banks to buy excess cotton. “For us, it’s a matter of contract. We normally make deals for one year at a predetermined price.”

India has regulated its textile industry firmly, making sure that cotton and yarn meet domestic needs first, he said. “They use a mix of non-tax barriers to check exports of yarn.”

Cotton traders brush aside concerns about hoarding. “No one would risk billions of rupees of loan just to bet that prices will go up,” said a cotton trader. “There is no evidence of borrowing from banks for hoarding cotton.”

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Indian Cotton Prints of the Nineteenth Century

Indian textiles had long made an impact on British design and decoration and had been doing so with an increasingly larger and more dominant approach to the British market throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The British were impressed by the professional standard of textile work produced in India and particularly that of East Bengal, now present day Bangladesh. Imports were wide scaling and became hugely popular with the British public. This had produced by the nineteenth century a subtle dependency of the British industry on the style and format of Indian pattern work to such an extent that it seemed, at first glance, to be difficult to tell textiles that had been imported from India and those that had been produced domestically.

By the middle of the nineteenth century, a systematic analysis of Indian imports and design work in general was underway. Before this period the British textile industry had been largely content to merely copy Indian textile work in order to accrue their own profits from the popularity of the pattern work. However, with critics such as Owen Jones, Richard Redgrave and Henry Cole, the idea of examining Indian techniques both on a decorative, technical and practical level, became a legitimate subject for discussion.

The British Design Reform movement largely headed by Cole and Redgrave, called for a more manageable and practical approach to surface pattern. Their was an insistence that pattern work should be representative of and sympathetic to the discipline of textiles, in other words that flat pattern work should be twinned with the flat medium of textiles. This called into question contemporary ideas concerning the three dimensional trickery involved in so much European pattern work that was not only limited to printed textiles but included carpet, tapestry and embroidery work. That this could also be expanded into surface pattern work reproduced in the decorative format of ceramics, glass, metal, stone and wood, shows that European decoration during this period, had some serious and fundamental problems.

The Design Reform movement was particularly interested in the concept of Indian textile work as it was standard throughout the Indian industry not to use any form of shadow, which by definition gave pattern work the illusion of dimension. Therefore, as far as Cole and others were concerned, Indian textile work was a perfect representation of an industry that was intrinsically aware of the limitations of a discipline such as textile design. It was strenuously hoped that the British industry would understand the decorative principles by which the Indian textile industry was founded and follow suit, opening up a new and more creatively productive phase of the British textile industry

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There was always opposition to the use of India as a template for the promotion of contemporary decoration and pattern work, but this was usually based on religious, racial or classically inspired opposition, rather than technical or practical considerations. Interestingly these opposition voices tended to be of a relatively small nature, but this could have much to do with the fact that Henry Cole himself was an important civil servant who had managed to accrue a huge area of influence during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Cole had at least a partial influence over a number of important individuals from the Prince Regent to a number of ministers within different governments of the period. Therefore, his belief in Design Reform gained both influence and momentum largely due to his position, that he could include a need to study and understand Indian textile work within this remit, gave the movement its real strategy for reform.

Although Indian textile work was held by many in Britain to be infinitely superior to anything that could be produced at home, there still appeared sporadic interference in the daily practical aspects of the industry. East Bengal in particular seemed to bear the brunt of at least a potential for British interference. Many letters, articles and journals were produced over decades concerning new and different ways of increasing the potential of Indian textile work. Many of these were produced by government officials in Calcutta (Kolkata), the British long-term capital of India, which was also within easy reach of the large textile producing area around Dacca (Dhaka), the present day capital of Bangladesh. Nothing was ever said as to the standard of the decorative pattern work itself and perhaps this says much about the British attitude in India to the decorative arts. It was probably understood that Britain had little, if anything to add to the pattern work being produced in India, but felt that perhaps they could contribute towards the better systematic running, at least on an industrial scale, of the industry.

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The power and influence of Indian textile pattern work on that of the British industry can be seen running through the entire course of the British connection with India, from it's initial trading links in the seventeenth century, through to its occupation as part of the Empire and through to independence in the mid-twentieth century and beyond. British designers have used different Indian pattern methods, usually though not universally, connected to floral inspired work, with chintz being particularly influential to such an extent that today chintz is considered as much British as it was originally Indian. The influence of Indian textile work on the British industry should never be underestimated. It has fundamentally challenged, guided and changed the concept of surface pattern in Britain throughout the last four centuries and will continue to do so indefinitely.

Interestingly, and perhaps ironically, the British textile industry today is only a shadow of its former self, while the Indian and more particularly Bangladeshi industry is now seen as a world leader, with textiles being by far the largest proportion of its exports. It has been able to consolidate the long and often complex history of textile design and pattern work in the region and therefore continues the cultural affinity with the production of textiles that it has always maintained

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Herbal Textiles: Green Business, Green Earth!!!

The expansion of textile production and consumption has contributed to increasing pollution, water shortages, fossil fuel and raw material depletion, and climate change. Production of polyester fibre, the most widely used man-made fibre, consumes non-renewable resources and high energy levels, and generates atmospheric emissions. Modern automated textile plants consume large amounts of energy. Textile finishing consumes large amounts of water and energy and often produces harmful effluent. Apparel production is more environmentally friendly, but sourcing from low cost countries consumes more fuel for transportation. Among consumers, the trend towards fast fashion and cheaper clothing has led to a throw-away mentality. Although recycling activity remains at a low level-for economic and quality reasons. Some retailers are also voluntarily attaching "eco-labels" to garments to provide environmental information.

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Yarn

1.
thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used forknitting and weaving.
2.
a continuous strand or thread made from glass, metal,plastic, etc.
3.
the thread, in the form of a loosely twisted aggregate offibers, as of hemp, of which rope is made (rope yarn).

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Valley Yarns Valley Cotton 5/2

The WEBS line of mercerized perle cottons in 3/2, 5/2, and 10/2 is put up on standard one pound cones for weavers and machine knitters. The Valley Cottons line features 61 sumptuous solid colors and 8 variegated selections. All colors are available in three sizes. 3/2 runs 1,260 yards/lb., 5/2 runs 2,100 yards/lb., and 10/2 runs 4,200 yards/lb. Dyed for color fastness, but of course, be sure to test your sample the way you want to finish your fabric. Spun, and dyed exclusively for WEBS in Brazil.

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calculation of yarn count)

 A. How to denominate and express

        1.Metric count(used mainly for yarn spun by worsted  and woolen yarn spinning system such as             worsted yarn ,woollen yarn and mixed yarn,etc )

                                     :" 's "          ex) 1/30's, 2/30's, 2/2/30's

        2.English count(used mainly for yarn spun by cotton spinning system,such as cotton,rayon,etc)

                                      :" 's "         ex) 30/1's, 30/2's, 30/2/2's,

        3.Filament yarn      : " d "(  called denier)             ex) 1/150d, 2/150d, 2/2/150d ~~

        3.Linen yarn          : " lea "( called lea)                ex) 1/40 lea, 2/40 lea, 2/2/40 lea ~~

        4.How to call :  1/30´s  ; called " 30's single yarn "     2/30´s  ;called "30's two ply yarn "

                                2/2/30,s ; called " two ply yarn of 30's two ply yarn "

                               1/150d; 150d single yarn,     2/150d; 150d two ply yarn~~

                               1/40 lea ; linen 40 lea single yarn,      2/40´s ; linen 40 lea two ply yarn~~



 B. Calculation of yarn count

1.Worsted count (it belongs to staple fiber) Constant weight system,using metric count system

                *when 1 gram of yarn runs 1 meter in length, we call 1's yarn.
                                                           2 meters                          2's
                                                           3     "                                3's

2.Denier count(it belongs to long fiber in other word, fillament. Constant length system.
               
     
                * If 9000 meters of yarn weigh 1gram,we call it 1d fillament.
                                                                     2grams           2d
                                                                     3  "                  3d

3.How to convert from one system to other sytem of yarn count.

                *Based on metric count,    1's Nm count = 1.7 x 1's Ec count
                                                                                = 9000/denier count(d)
                                                                                = lea x 0.6

                                                         ex) 1/60's Nm = 1/35's Ec
                                                                                = 150d
                                                                                = 100 lea

                *Calculation of ply yarn,  ply count = A's x B's/A's + B's

                                                         ex) two ply of 1/20's and 1/30's ;  20 x 30 /20 +30 =600 /50
                                                                                                                                      =1/12's
4.E. Mark of twist (direction of twist)

        Left twist=Z twist  : " / " Z direction,      Right twist=S twist  : " \ " S direction

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Cotton Update

Friday, February 11, 5:50 PM Last cotton update of the week: no limit moves today, but after hitting a record high early in the session, Marchcotton settles up 1.3% at $1.90/lb. Clothing retailers (HBI JNY RL) have been marking up prices, but are still likely to see margins squeezed. BAL-1.2% on the day, +9.7% for the week.

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Polyester Market

This section covers the full Polyester Chain, namely Crude oil, Paraxylene, PTA and MEG, Polyester Chips, Staple Fibers, Spun Polyester Yarns, Filament Yarns (POY, DTY, FDY), and Polyester Filament Fabrics.

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Yarn Market

This section covers the Spun Yarn Market, including the international yarn market and domestic yarn prices in China, India and Pakistan.

Market prices are released for 100% cotton, polyester and viscose spun yarns while also for blends, including cotton-polyester, polyester-viscose, etc.

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Cotton Price Crash on Physical Market (Weekly Report)

2 May 2011 - Cotton prices last week crashed on the physical market, where the benchmark A Index dramatically fell over a lack of demand and an impressive wave of order cancellations. The heavy drop in China's cotton futures triggered this strong decline in cotton market prices. Prices may however stay at very high levels in the next season.

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