"What TCA Will Do For You."

The Texas Cotton Association is a nonprofit trade Association consisting of Active members (Cotton Merchants and Primary Marketers) and Associate members (businesses supporting the cotton trade industry) and was organized and corporation chartered in 1911. TCA engages in a variety of services and activities to the cotton trade as follows:

CIRCULAR LETTERS: The Association keeps its members informed regarding the various activities in which it is engaged through circular letters (mailed, faxed & e-mailed) disseminating pertinent information to the trade. The Association circularizes a Special Movement Project Report weekly (during the shipping season) by surveying the warehouses and compiling the information to report the status on cotton shipments. Circular Letters include government reports such as production estimate information, reports on current situations, convention and meeting information, forms, notices, and quarterly statements and helpful information to other facets of the cotton industry. The Association publishes an annual Membership Directory, Annual Bulletin, Rules & By-Laws and Texas Supply and Demand booklets foreign delegations visiting Texas.

TRADE RULES: The Association maintains Trade Rules and By-Laws for the purchase and sale of cotton in Texas, providing adequate safeguards for both buyer and seller, in keeping with accepted business principles and terms on which practically all cotton trading is done in Texas.

ARBITRATIONS: An equitable system of arbitration is maintained for the purpose of settlement of disputes between members and/or nonmembers, without resorting to the expensive methods involving litagation.

LEGISLATION: The Association maintains surveillance on state legislative issues including discouraging harmful economic legislation, working closely with government regulatory agencies.

MEETINGS: Two Flow/Marketing Meetings are held each year to include all facets of the cotton industry. The South Texas Flow/Marketing Meeting, usually held in June and the West Texas Flow/Marketing Meeting, usually held in October preceding the cotton season, are both conducted to identify problems and to review requirements and information for the approaching harvesting and shipping season to maintain an orderly movement of cotton from field to mill, including commitment expectations so that estimated transportation and labor needs may be evaluated. An annual meeting of the members and guests of the Association is held each year, usually in April, to discuss and take action in the formulation of policies through committee/executive sessions, including the election of Officers and Directors and the review of the past year's activities.

AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION: Membership in the Texas Cotton Association automatically carries with it a membership in the American Cotton Shippers Association. ACSA activities include an annual meeting, usually in May, circular letters, trade rules, arbitrations and legislative surveillance- on an international and national level. You may visit ACSA at www.acsa-cotton.org to learn more about what ACSA does for members.

*Effect payment/5,000 bale minimum annually
**No effect payment/5,000 bale minimum annually
^†Merchant
^††Primary Buyers

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