Component
Cotton
Raw cotton fiber grown on US cropland each year. Mills use a small share of the crop; the rest is exported as lint. The deposits figure is one typical harvest (annual biological capacity), not a mineral in the ground.
Criticality
Medium
Unit cost
$1.8K
Quality
50 / 100
US saturation
99.3
Made in US
3,000,000 tonnes
Current demand
350,000 tonnes
US exports
2,650,000 tonnes
Opportunity score
5.4
US deposits
3,000,000 tonnes
US stockpile
904,000 tonnes
Domestic vs international supply
Planned US investment, next 5 years
$200M
Expected extra output: 200,000 tonnes per year