The current committee of the Thai Rubber Association has been in the operation since 2018. The operation of the committee is based upon the following principles: 1) to operate on the principle of transparency and good governance; 2) to corporate with government agencies and private sector both at local and international level; 3) to cherish a close relationship with other rubber producing countries, particularly in Asia; 4) to act as a central body between r...
The New Pestalotiopsis leaf disease began in 2016 in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. The disease had damaged 388,800 hectares of rubber trees in Indonesia, 122,530 hectares in Thailand, and 10,000 hectares in Malaysia. According to the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC), in 2019, they forecasted that the disease made the rubber output dropped 329,000 tons in Indonesia and 121,000 tons in Thailand. Thailand has repo...
China-Thai relations have been good for decades in various aspects: trade, investment, and tourism. Especially, the natural rubber exports from Thailand to China continually expand. China is by far the largest consumer of natural rubber worldwide and most world tire production, so China's market is an important market to show a market sign of natural rubber demand each year. China’s economic direction is one of the factors which directly affect natural rub...
In 2020, the global economy tends to grow more positively as compared to 2019. International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected the global economic growth rate as 3.4% in 2020. Meanwhile, Thai Government has rolled out the economic stimulus measures to establish economic strengths both in domestic and foreign countries. One of the most important measures is the investment in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), which needs clarity as well as a continuati...
Thailand’s rubber market begins when farmers harvest latex, ribbed smoked sheet (RSS), cup lump rubber, and smoked sheet cutting. Then, these yields are sold through small, middle, large middleman or rubber cooperative to sell raw materials to the upstream rubber factories, such as latex factory, RSS factory, STR factory, rubber compound factory, mixtures rubber factory, etc. After that, it is distributed to domestic rubber-based products manufacturers and...
