Monthly Rubber Statistics Malaysia March 2017

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Friday, 12 May 2017 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MONTHLY RUBBER STATISTICS MALAYSIA, MARCH 2017 Natural Rubber (NR) decreased by 7.4 per cent in March 2017 Production of NR in March 2017 decreased by 7.4 per cent to 79,966 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 731.80 sen per kilogramme and 863.07 sen per kilogramme, decreased by 8.3 per cent and 10.7 per cent respectively from February 2017. In March 2017, exports of NR increased by 2.7 per cent to 59,520 tonnes as compared to February 2017. Five main destinations of NR exports were China, Germany, Iran, Finland and Turkey. In the meantime, domestic consumption of NR increased by 15.0 per cent to 41,727 tonnes within the same period. Rubber gloves industry remains as the main domestic consumer of over 70 per cent. At the end of March 2017, level of NR stocks went up by 4.1 per cent to 256,692 tonnes.
4. *Notes: Data for March 2017 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the April 2017 publication. Released By: THE OFFICE OF CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, MALAYSIA 12 May 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