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Global Cotton Demand Could Rise 22% by 2019: World cotton demand may rebound in the year that begins in August 2010 and jump 22 percent over the next decade as the economy recovers from the recession, according to the Texas Tech University Cotton Economics Research Institute....more

USDA: World Cotton Demand Will Fall Further : USDA says cotton demand will get worse before it gets better thanks to the global economic recession....more

India Challenges Turkey in WTO Dispute: India has challenged a move by Turkey, its second-biggest market for textiles, to shield Turkish industry from surging cotton yard imports, a document on the World Trade Organization (WTO) website showed on Wednesday. ...more

Brazil Seeks $2.5 Billion in Sanctions Against U.S.: Brazil is asking the World Trade Organization to approve $2.5 billion (1.97 billion euros) in sanctions against the United States in a dispute over US cotton subsidies, the Brazilian ambassador said Monday. Roberto Azevedo said the request was lodged at a meeting of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body in Geneva. ...more

Cotton Corp Of India Could Buy 10M Bales by April: State-run Cotton Corp. of India, the country's largest cotton buyer, is likely to buy a record 10 million bales in the current procurement season between October 2008 and April 2009, the chairman and managing director said....more

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