Changes in agricultural policies in the United States and in foreign countries over the past few years have resulted in brisk world cotton trade. Foreign producer responses to various demand factors, other governments cotton policy, and growing textile industries within their own countries will most likely lead to expanding world trade in value added textile products in the future. World production of cotton is forecast to increase by 35 percent by the year 2000, while world trade in raw cotton is forecast to increase by only 14 percent.