Monthly Rubber Statistics Malaysia February 2017

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MONTHLY RUBBER STATISTICS MALAYSIA, FEBRUARY 2017 Natural Rubber (NR) increased by 29.5 per cent in February 2017 Production of NR in February 2017 increased by 29.5 percent to 86,403 tonnes as compared to previous month. 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 were 798.33 sen per kilogramme and 966.94 sen per kilogramme, rose by 12.3 per cent and 1.0 per cent respectively from January 2017. In February 2017, exports of NR increased by 15.0 per cent to 57,959 tonnes as compared to January 2017. Five main destinations of NR exports were China, Germany, Iran, U.S.A. and Finland. In the meantime, domestic consumption of natural rubber declined by 7.9 per cent to 36,528 tonnes within the same period. Rubber gloves industry remain as the main domestic consumer of over 70 per cent. At the end of February 2017, level of NR stocks went up by 11.3 per cent to 246,599 tonnes.
4. *Notes: Data for February 2017 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the March 2017 publication. Released By: THE OFFICE OF CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, MALAYSIA 12 April 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