Monthly Rubber Statistics Malaysia - October 2017

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MONTHLY RUBBER STATISTICS MALAYSIA, OCTOBER 2017 Production of natural rubber (NR) increased 28.5 per cent in October 2017 Production of natural rubber (NR) increased by 14,931 tonnes (28.5%) to 67,403 tonnes in October 2017 as compared to the previous month. Year-on-year comparisons also showed an increase of 8.3 per cent compared to October 2016. The main contributor of NR production is from smallholding sector which is more than 90 per cent. Average monthly price of Latex Concentrate and Standard Malaysian Rubber 20 in October 2017 were 489.36 sen per kilogramme and 601.21 sen per kilogramme, decreased by 11.4 per cent and 9.0 per cent respectively from September 2017. Exports of NR in October 2017 rose by 2,018 tonnes (4.5%) to 47,162 tonnes as compared to September 2017. Five main destinations of NR exports were China, Germany, U.S.A., Iran and Republic of Korea. Domestic consumption of NR in October 2017 was 42,753 tonnes, increased by 2,092 tonnes (5.2%) as compared to the previous month. Rubber glove industry was the largest industry using NR of 31,041 tonnes (72.9%). At the end of October 2017, level of NR stocks increased by 12,564 tonnes (6.5%) to 206,593 tonnes.
4. *Notes: Data for October 2017 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the November 2017 publication. Released By: THE OFFICE OF CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, MALAYSIA 13 December 2017 Contact person: Ho Mei Kei Public Relation Officer Corporate and User Services Division Department of Statistics, Malaysia Tel : +603-8885 7942 Fax : +603-8888 9248 Email : mkho[at]stats.gov.my