China will offer 30,000 tonnes of cotton per day for sale until the end of August, the National Development and Reform Commision announced late last year, as Beijing seeks to whittle down its large, ageing stockpile.”Most of the companies have low stocks, as they expect cotton prices would drop with the coming state reserves auction,” said Ye Jianchun, vice president of China Cotton Textile Association, at an annual cotton industry conference held in Beijing on Friday. “They are also confident that the quality of auctioned cotton would be quite good,” Ye said.

Last year, delays in the auctions until May from March and poor quality of the fibre in the first few sales tightened supplies, leading to panic buying by mills and spurring a surge of almost 70% in prices in just under nine months.The most-active futures hit four-and-a-half-year highs in November. Industry insiders, however, think this year will be different.A purchasing manager at a textile company in Shandong province, a major producer of the fibre, said she only had one month of cotton in stock, rather than the usual two to three months of inventory.”Last year, [the auction] was rushed. This year,[(the government] is better prepared,” she saidคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. She declined to give her full name as she is not authorised to speak to the media.Traders say they are confident that the government will be able to meet its daily auction target this time, and prices will drop, at least in the short term. Still, hurt by price volatility last year, the industry is more guarded against potential risks.”If [the government] meets its promise, in terms of the volume and quality structure of the auctioned cotton, it will benefit the market a lot,” said Wei Gangmin, chairman of Henan Tongzhou Cotton Trade Co Ltd, a cotton trader and processor in China. The company has 11 ginning mills and two spinning mills.”But if it can’t, it will cause volatilityคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. If prices went up, it would restrain demand and obstruct the goal of reducing stocks.” Wei said.The international market is closely watching China’s state sales, as it holds more than half of the world’s stocks in reserves and an increase in domestic supplies would further dent imports.