Current Agricultural Industrial Reports (CAIR)

United States Department of Agriculture
National Agricultural Statistics Service

INSTRUCTION SHEET for COTTON and MANMADE FIBER STAPLE
Who Should Report – A form is needed from all mills in the United States consuming cotton
and manmade fiber staple. A separate report should be filed for each mill of your company. Call
the toll free help line, 1-888-424-7828, if you need additional forms or have questions.
If You Have a Mill that is No Longer Active or is now Operated by another Firm – Write
“No Longer Active” and the “date” the mill became inactive below the address area. If the mill
is now operated by another firm, and, if known, list the name and address of who is now
operating the mill. Return the form.
How to Enter Your Responses – Enter your figures in the unit(s) requested, i.e., Number of
Running Bales, 1,000 pounds, 1,000 hours, etc. Keep numbers within the boxes.
Reference Period – Specified in column 3 as the entire reference month.
Included on this report A. Consumption of materials
Include —
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Materials passed though the opener or otherwise removed from inventory and put into
process for carding, spinning, bleaching, etc.

Exclude —
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B.

Consumption of recycled cotton fiber or textile waste, linters, motes, and all other waste
materials.
Stocks of materials

Report the inventory of materials located in your mill, mill warehouse, or in any private storage
place which you own or lease as of the close of business as of the close of business on the date
specified.
Include —
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Stocks in these locations regardless of ownership of the material.

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Stockpile cotton released by the General Services Administration.

Exclude —
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In-process material such as roving, batts, felts, bleached raw stock, etc.

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Material stored in public warehouses or at other manufacturing plants. (These materials
will be reported by the warehouse or at the other manufacturing plants.)

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Battings and pads made from linters by others. Also, do not include linters pulp and gin
motes.

C. Spindle and rotor hours
Enter the total spindle and/or rotor hours operated during the period of each fiber classification.
D. Units of measure
Report in the unit of measure specified for each item. Where thousands of pounds are requested
for domestic and foreign cotton consumption and stocks, report on a net trading weight basis.
Convert foreign cotton to 500 lb. equivalent gross weight by dividing the total weight including
baling materials by 500, or the net weight of the cotton excluding baling materials by 480.
E. Definitions
Spindles and rotors – The term “cotton-system spinning spindles” does not include spindles
operated on the “American” and other new systems for spinning uncut top. It does, however,
include rotors operating (open-end spinning). The total number of cotton-system spindles and/or
rotors should be reported whether or not such machines are used on cotton. For active spindles
and/or rotors, report the number active for the shift during which the largest number of spindles
and/or rotors operated on the last day of the period, showing separately the number active for
each fiber classification.

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