The expiration of temporary safeguard measures against Chinese exports of certain cotton apparel to the US beginning 2009 is estimated to result in lower apparel prices in the US by $0.02/kg, on average, whereas cotton prices in the US remain unaltered in the medium term (2009-2015). A price...

The impacts of using export taxes as a price control in a multi-market framework are explored using the cotton and yarn sectors in Pakistan as examples. Results show that the export tax on cotton increased domestic consumption and decreased exports of cotton in Pakistan, transferring income from...

This study evaluates the accuracy of the US Department of Agriculture's Daily Spot Cotton Quotations (DSCQ) in reporting producer prices in the Texas-Oklahoma cotton production regions. Analysis of price levels and movements suggests that the DSCQ tend to overstate estimated producer prices for...

Producer spot (cash) prices of cotton from the Southwest region were compared to futures prices for cotton to examine the cash|futures price relationship using the cointegration technique. The results showed that the cash producer price and the futures price were not consistently related. The...