Ironically, the largest amount of cotton exports went to the United States.
The city became one of the nation's busiest ports and the world's leading port for cotton exports.
The South was never really on board with the American System and had access to plenty of markets for its cotton exports.
The Southern economy was based on cotton exports, and then-current transportation networks met the plantation system's needs.
Take Mali, which is almost entirely dependent on cotton exports.
Finally, in 1961, an ambitious 10-year development plan was launched, designed to end the Sudan's dependence on cotton exports and many foreign manufactured imports.
British cotton exports reach 30 per cent of the Indian market by 1850.
British cotton exports reach 55 per cent of the Indian market by 1875.
A comment was also raised concerning cotton exports.
But cotton exports, worth $136 million in 1979, fell to $30 million in 1980.