Download Cotton Clips

Cotton Clips
Background information on cotton
as a commodity
In 1993, 16.2 million bales of
conventional cotton and 50,000
bales of organic cotton were
produced in the US.
This is enough
cotton to make
19,776,250,000
T-shirts!
• The United States is the largest
cotton exporter in the world. On the
average, more than one quarter of the
world’s cotton originates in the United
States.
• Cotton is the
single bestselling fiber in
America,
outselling all
synthetic fibers
combined
• In the United States, cotton is grown
in 17 states along the “Cotton Belt,”
which stretches from Virginia to
California.