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From December 9 to December 15, the national seed cotton purchase volume was 66,000 tons, down 57,000 tons from the previous month, and the purchase volume in Xinjiang was 58,000 tons, including 28,000 tons of hand-picked cotton, 30,000 tons of machine-picked cotton, and 8,000 tons of cotton purchased in the mainland. According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, in November 2024, the retail sales of clothing, shoes and hats, and knitted textiles in China will be 148 billion yuan, down 4.5% year-on-year; From January to November, the retail sales of clothing, shoes and hats, and knitted textiles in China were 1,307.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.4%. According to statistics, as of December 12, the inventory of major ports of imported cotton increased by 0.3% week-on-week, with a total inventory of 504,000 tons.Among them, the inventory of imported cotton in Qingdao, Jinan ports and surrounding warehouses in Shandong was about 413,400 tons, an increase of 0.2% week-on-week, and a year-on-year increase of 9%; The inventory of imported cotton in Zhangjiagang Port and surrounding warehouses in Jiangsu is about 56,600 tons, and the inventory of other ports is about 34,000 tons.During the week, the volume of imported cotton transactions and shipments was average, and Brazilian cotton, American cotton and a small amount of Turkish cotton arrived in Hong Kong, so the port inventory rose slightly. According to the data of the national cotton market monitoring system, as of December 12, 2024, the national new cotton picking progress was 99.9%, a year-on-year decrease of 0.1 percentage points, the national delivery rate was 98.4%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points year-on-year, the national processing rate was 81.9%, an increase of 0.5 percentage points year-on-year, and the national sales rate was 18.1%, an increase of 6.7 percentage points year-on-year.