December 2019, China’s Natural Rubber and Synthetic Rubber import volume is 0.728 million tons, in 2019, rubber import volume is 6.576 million tons, down 6.2% year-on-year.

Asia’s demand for acrylonitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) has shrunk in the run-up to the Lunar New Year holidays due to slumping downstream automotive sector, with consumption being eroded further by growing production of electric vehicles.

Yesterday's Tokyo rubber rised 2% driven by the Shanghai stock market, which was pulled up by long-term forces after the early far-month contract opened slightly higher, triggering a stop-loss exit for short-term empty orders after breaking through the recent high of 204.7 yen.

Domestic PVC east China market slightly reduced this week, trading gravity than last week fell 80-100 yuan / ton. At present, the east China region inventory than last week, just to maintain the downstream procurement, traders increased pressure on shipments.

January 9,2020 national NBR average price of 14,599.99 yuan / ton, yesterday's average price of 15,800 yuan / ton, compared to yesterday's drop of 1200.01 yuan / ton, down 7.6 per cent from yesterday.

There are more than 320 brands of NBR. It depends on the content of acrylonitrile, polymerization temperature, Mooney viscosity, physical form, processing performance and antioxidant type.