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Cotton and Dyes

Their prices have moved together.

Cotton (commodity) and Dyes (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: main end use

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Reactive dyes colour cotton, and Indian dye makers sell heavily to cotton textile mills. Cotton prices follow harvests more than mill activity, so monthly moves correlate at only 0.05, rising to 0.23 over the last five years.

  • 0.05 monthly change correlation
  • 0.04 12-month change correlation
  • 0.21 fitted elasticity

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