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The Shrinking Foreign Market for United States Cotton

Bennett S. White

Kentucky Educational Television

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1940

Introduction, 255.— Foreign consumption of American and other cottons, 256.— Factors affecting foreign mill consumption: industrial production and the demand for textiles, 256; substitute fibers, 259; other factors, 261.— Factors affecting the kind of cotton consumed: development of manufacturing in new areas, 263; trade regulations, 265; substitute fibers, 267; changes in relative supplies, 267. Factors responsible for the change in relative supplies: agricultural and commercial policies of the United States, 269; prices for cotton and competing crops in foreign countries, 271; currency depreciation, 272; crop restriction and price-pegging, 272.— The situation summarized, 274.

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10.2307/1883333
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54 (2)
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255
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