Sunday, December 14, 2014

Will industry revive from crisis?


Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand are intensifying their efforts to help stop the decline in world rubber prices which is affecting their economies and planters. Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister, Amar Douglas Uggah Embas, said 11 Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) nations contribute 95% to the world’s natural rubber supply and if we all worked together, it would make a big impact in handling the issue.

Indian Rubber Growers Association (IRGA) urged the government to immediately increase the import duty to 25%. The Kerala Government should also facilitate more uptake of rubber from the State to improve prices by way of tax concessions and explore the possibility of rubberisation of 20% of roads every year.

IRGA has also asked the domestic tyre manufacturers to buy rubber from India at the landed cost of imported rubber. Otherwise, the growers have threatened to boycott domestic tyre manufacturers and resort to buying of cheaper imported tyres, the same way as the raw material is being imported by the tyre industry. The growers association comprising UPASI, APK, IRGA etc have filed a petition under the Provisions of Safeguard before the Directorate of Safeguards-New Delhi to protect the domestic rubber growers from un-controlled and unrestricted imports.

The benchmark RSS4 grade rubber closed at `.113.50 a kg at Kottayam, while RSS3 grade closed at `.96.52 a kg at Bangkok and Malaysian SMR20 closed at `.89.36 a kg. On National Multi Commodity Exchange December 2014 futures closed at `.114.05 a kg, January 2015 at `.112.92 and February at `.113.33 a kg. On Tokyo Commodity Exchange, December 2014 futures series closed at ¥179.7 a kg, January 2015 at ¥184.8, February at ¥188.4, March at ¥192.2, April at ¥194.6 and the contract for delivery in May 2015 closed at ¥195.9 a kg. On Monday, most probably Tocom futures contract for delivery in May 2015 may trade in positive range between ¥195 & ¥205 a kg.

To know stock difference read Rubber4U – 15th December 2014 issue: http://rubber4u.com/Public/R4U12b.pdf
For 2014-15 Rubber Forecast: http://rubber4u.com/Public/RForecast.pdf

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