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When Markets Shift Merchants Must Follow the Spindles

As cotton consumption finds new markets around the globe, a Western European merchant looks to provide those customers with Sudanese ELS cotton.

Features

West African Cotton Economies Face A Struggle For Survival

Four years of low prices and growing deficits leave West Africa’s cotton markets on the brink of crisis.

Chinese Delegation Purchases $500 Million of U.S. Cotton

Late in the marketing year, Chinese mill representatives travel to Memphis, Tennessee and sign contracts for approximately 1.5 million bales.

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Ernie Schroeder
Evolution of a Merchant
California-based cotton merchant Ernie Schroeder, Jr. explains how his firm adapts to the paradigm shifts of a changing market... Read more
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