Cotton shipments from India have resumed after two months of restrictions. The government had suspended new registrations for cotton exports as an attempt to make sure domestic mills and manufacturers had plenty of the raw material. The decision will be revisited later this month, and the Cotton Corporation of India, which is controlled by the government, has been ordered to stockpile 1 million bales of cotton to be available in case of emergency in June, July and August. India produces 22 percent of the world's cotton, the second-highest supplier globally, and the ban outraged domestic farmers as well as big importers of Indian cotton, such as China, its biggest customer. In the current fiscal year, which started on Oct. 1, India has already exported almost 9.4 million bales of cotton; the estimated exportable surplus was just 8.4 million bales.

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