QID Cotton in Private Storage

COTTON IN PRIVATE STORAGE - August 2017
							OMB No. 0535-0254 Approval Expires: 7/31/2017 Project Code: 681 QID:       SMetaKey: 3792 Version M311H
								United States Department of Agriculture
								NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
							USDA/NASS National Operations Division 9700 Page Avenue, Suite 400 St. Louis, MO 63132-1547 Phone: 1-888-424-7828 FAX: 1-855-515-1328 Email: [email protected]
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Include:

• Baled lint upland and extra long cotton staple (ELS) on hand for which no electronic warehouse receipts issued by a provider are active as of midnight on Saturday, July 30, 2017

• Include any cotton stored in shipping containers.

• For cotton merchant companies and marketing cooperatives, include only cotton in storage facilities owned and operated by your company.

Exclude:

• Cotton in transit or on board ships

• Cotton lint at spinning mills or storage facilities at ports.

• Loose cotton, linters, and motes.

• Cotton which has been reported to USDA's Farm Services agency in the most recent Bales Made Available for Shipment (BMAS) report.

• For cotton merchant companies and marketing cooperatives, exclude cotton you own that is stored at warehouses or storage facilities not owned or managed by your organizations.

Stocks	Unit of Measure	July 30, 2017
1. Raw cotton on hand at this establishment (domestic and foreign)
a. Upland	Number of Running Bales	2710
b. Extra Long Staple ( American Pima and other)	Number of Running Bales	2711

OFFICE USE ONLY
Response		Respondent		Mode		Enum.	Eval.	Change	Office Use for POID
1-Comp 2-R 3-Inac 4-Office Hold 5-R-Est 6-Inac-Est 7-Off Hold-Est	9901	1-Op/Mgr 2-Sp 3-Acct/Bkpr 4-Partner 9-Oth	9902	1-Mail 2-Tel 3-Face-to-Face 4-CATI 5-Web 6-E-mail 7-Fax 8-CAPI 19-Other	9903	9998	9900	9985	9989
							R. Unit
							9921		Optional Use
									9907	9908	9906	9916
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