Rubber Commodities Project Crystal and Roy

2 Types› Synthetic Rubber

› Natural Rubber

Uses› Tires and Tubes› General Rubber Goods (GRG)

Produced› Para Rubber Trees› S.E Asia› Rubber

Plantations Traded

› SICOM› TOCOM› C-COM

Production

› Cultivation

› Collection

Late 19th Century

1910-1940

WWII

OPEC Oil Embargo of 1973

Prices of Oil› Prices of Synthetic Rubber

Rise of Oil Prices

Natural Rubber Production(thousand tons) Largest Producers, 1961-2005

ITRO› Rubber Producers › What is this organization? › Why was it established? › Availability› Price Control

Price Stabilization Fund (PSF)

› Market Equilibrium Model Price Spectrum of 40%

±20%

International Natural Rubber Agreements (INRA)› What is it?› Who’s in it?› Objective?› 550,000 tons market intervention for

price stabilization

› What ended up happening?› 1998› Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka with-

drawed (Sep. 1999) › 1979 and 1987 price stabilization

objective 206.98 cents per kilo from 210

Definition…

Rubber Board calls for tough stand on market speculators › Causes and Effects

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