Title 13 › CHAPTER 3 — COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION OF STATISTICS › SUBCHAPTER I — COTTON › § 42
The Secretary must publish how much cotton was ginned from each crop before these dates: August 1, September 1, September 15, October 1, October 15, November 1, November 15, December 1, December 15, January 1, January 15, February 1, and March 1. For the August 1 and September 1 reports, the Secretary may limit the surveys to only those parts of cotton-growing states where cotton has actually been ginned. The Secretary must also publish, each month and as soon as possible after the month ends, numbers for cotton used in factories, bales on hand, active consuming spindles and spindle-hours, and cotton imports and exports. When reporting cotton held in warehouses and the U.S. carry-over, the Secretary must list bales of linters separately from bales of cotton. Just before each Agriculture Department cotton report is released, the Secretary must give the latest of these statistics to the Department, and the Department must include them in its report.
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13 U.S.C. § 42
Title 13, Census
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Aug 21, 2026
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