Isengildina-Massa, Olga; MacDonald, Stephen - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
industry occurred in 1999, and world cotton supply has become an important determinant of U.S. cotton prices, along with China … changes in U.S. cotton supply, the U.S. stocks-to-use ratio (S/U), China’s net imports as a share of world consumption, the … foreign supply of cotton, and selected farm policy parameters. …