Title: Planet Money: Where Did Your Cotton Come From? Technologies, Subsidies and the Search for Cheap Cotton
Course: Tennessee Economics Sample Syllabus > Section: Standard 6: 📦Trade

Chances are you’re wearing something made from cotton. This story tracks down the source of the cotton that went into a T-shirt. A spinning mill in Indonesia is where the fabric may have been made, but the cotton fields of Mississippi is where the cotton may have been grown. Why would a textile mill in Indonesia buy cotton from the United States? Listen to find out how technology and subsidies give American cotton farmers an advantage in international trade.