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i'm not sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Cotton
"By 1860, Southern plantations supplied 75% of the world's cotton"
I did some reading on this topic several years ago, and if memory serves correctly, there were differences in the products being exported at that time. I believe India in particular grew less-valuable short staple varieties of cotton, which was woven by hand into textiles before exporting. The U.S. was exporting raw extra-long staple cotton, ginned and ideal for British textile mills.
idk about China, but it wasn't until the 20th century that India started large-scale plantings of the types of cotton grown in the U.S. south.