Sources of Market Information on Rubber, Rubber Raw Materials, and Rubber Products

Sources are given for the following: statistics on crude rubber production, prices, and trade; for statistics on raw materials for making synthetic rubber, including butadiene, styrene, isobutylene, and acrylonitrile, synthetic rubber production, synthetic rubber prices, and synthetic rubber trade; for reclaimed rubber production, prices, and trade. The literature on current consumption of all types of rubber is reviewed. End-use data are given for all kinds of rubbers in major consuming countries, and reference is made to the most complete recent U.S. studies on the amounts of various rubbers used in different rubber products. Sources of general economic statistics on the rubber industry are discussed.