Cotton, Cotton Outlook 'A Index', Middling 1-3/32 inch staple, CIF Liverpool, US cents per pound
(JAN-1980 - OCT-2007 )
Year JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
1980 88.72 97.21 93.53 90.56 88.40 84.14 88.87 96.37 101.12 98.69 98.03 99.16
1981 99.51 95.85 91.72 88.65 87.51 86.36 85.27 80.72 77.24 75.00 72.01 67.75
1982 69.97 69.98 70.44 71.15 76.69 75.64 78.47 76.40 72.82 70.21 69.04 69.26
1983 71.88 74.32 79.11 80.22 81.96 86.01 88.44 90.80 89.85 88.11 89.12 89.36
1984 87.80 87.44 88.43 88.99 88.88 83.73 78.99 75.52 73.16 73.62 72.67 71.99
1985 71.40 68.67 67.21 66.26 65.07 63.00 61.10 57.00 54.20 48.84 48.12 48.19
1986 51.82 54.51 52.24 48.50 45.42 41.03 37.44 37.03 43.50 51.23 52.81 59.71
1987 65.68 65.85 63.09 65.85 76.90 79.30 83.24 86.60 83.61 76.19 75.83 75.08
1988 72.19 67.49 66.34 65.75 65.58 68.78 63.43 58.41 56.74 57.64 58.61 61.26
1989 63.13 62.96 66.02 73.75 77.34 78.86 83.01 82.97 81.45 82.10 82.13 77.62
1990 75.20 75.96 78.90 82.87 85.60 90.18 91.79 81.28 81.28 81.36 82.43 83.86
1991 83.71 84.88 84.23 83.43 84.17 83.84 81.02 73.47 70.33 67.94 64.10 61.76
1992 59.62 56.30 55.33 57.99 60.59 63.89 65.29 59.75 56.65 53.12 52.69 54.00
1993 57.29 60.55 61.45 61.07 60.17 58.48 57.99 55.50 55.16 54.91 54.91 58.74
1994 67.94 79.97 81.77 83.25 86.04 86.20 82.02 76.94 75.29 73.88 76.91 86.38
1995 94.78 99.96 110.47 113.22 115.85 104.36 95.98 84.65 91.10 91.53 89.29 88.43
1996 85.91 86.79 83.23 83.00 82.89 83.13 79.84 76.71 75.36 75.43 75.91 78.29
1997 79.77 80.40 80.63 78.82 79.26 80.51 81.18 81.21 79.64 77.75 77.22 74.35
1998 72.14 68.84 68.43 65.70 64.36 68.94 69.86 68.18 66.39 61.46 56.08 56.00
1999 55.78 56.19 56.71 57.74 59.90 58.50 54.41 50.98 49.48 47.43 46.21 44.20
2000 47.43 53.44 57.30 58.77 60.50 59.47 58.39 60.89 61.64 60.89 63.98 65.86
2001 64.18 60.44 54.56 51.16 49.97 47.46 45.55 43.33 41.26 37.22 37.96 42.87
2002 43.42 42.81 42.04 41.38 39.89 43.48 46.70 49.32 48.98 49.56 52.33 55.22
2003 56.71 58.55 61.01 60.78 57.80 58.50 60.19 60.50 64.18 72.56 76.94 73.59
2004 76.24 73.92 72.28 69.44 70.04 64.63 57.02 53.47 56.68 52.52 49.24 48.60
2005 51.26 52.17 56.24 56.95 55.84 53.99 54.97 54.07 54.95 58.24 56.83 56.53
2006 59.01 60.75 58.62 57.18 55.41 56.42 56.73 59.85 58.82 57.03 57.40 59.43
2007 59.05 57.89 58.41 57.18 55.57 60.44 67.81 66.62 68.21 68.93