China Aug cotton imports down 13.8pc on year

BEIJING : China's cotton imports in August stood at 207,000 tonnes, down 13.8 percent from the same period last year, an

Published September 14, 2011 Updated September 14, 2011 07:34am

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However, August imports rose 31.8 percent from July, said the report published on www.cncotton.com, a website operated by China National Cotton Reserves Corp.

In the 2010/11 crop year starting from September, China imported a total of 2.58 million tonnes of the crop, up 2.93 percent on the year, it said.

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