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    Auctions will draw down Chinese cotton stocks to a 5-year low
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    Chinese cotton stocks will fall to a five-year low, as the government auctions off its huge reserves, the International Cotton Advisory Committee.The sharp decline in Chinese imports, and falling domestic production, will help draw down stocks even as Chinese demand falls.

    Cotton sales

    The Chinese government's huge stockpiles, accumulated through an abandoned price support scheme, have been hanging over world markets.

    Last month the government announced that it will sell up to 2.0m tonnes of cotton between May and August.

    Daily sales will be made of up to 30,000 tonnes, with prices based on international and domestic markets in the run up to the sales.

    Booming demand

    But even as Chinese buying falls off, import demand in other countries, particularly Vietnam and Bangladesh, is booming.

    World cotton production to increase marginally in 2016-17, as poor prices for alternative crops see growers return to the fibre

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