The Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) is happy to release the Natural Rubber Trends & Statistics, January 2019.

From Secretary-General's Desk

The world production of natural rubber (NR) experienced a fall at 10.1%, amounting to 1.080 million tonnes in January 2019 on a year-to-year basis. This may result from the recent tropical storm reported in Southern part of Thailand which is the major NR producing provinces in Thailand. In contrast,  the world demand of NR recorded an increase of 1.3% to 1.151 million tonnes during the same reference period. 

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