Daily benchmark, physical, and wholesale prices for natural rubber
Region Alert monitors daily natural rubber benchmarks because rubber sits at the center of the supply chain disruptions our intelligence service covers. It moves with Thai monsoon seasons, Chinese tire demand, and Ivorian expansion. A price snapshot on its own is a number; combined with on-the-ground intelligence from the producing region, it becomes a leading indicator of disruption, arbitrage, and policy risk.
Unlike commodity terminals that sell the same data to thousands of traders, our pages are designed to be cited, not consumed. Every price lists its exchange or publisher. The goal is to be the page an analyst trusts enough to link back to.
Natural rubber futures: SGX SICOM (Singapore Exchange) publishes daily settlement prices for RSS3 and TSR20, the two most-referenced global rubber benchmarks. These are the prices tire manufacturers, medical glove producers, and commodity traders transact against.
Malaysian physical rubber: The Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) issues daily FOB quotes for SMR CV, SMR L, SMR 5, 10, and 20 grades. These are the closest real-world prices to what Malaysian plantations receive at port.
Producing-country prices: The Rubber Board of India publishes daily reference prices for RSS4, RSS5 and ISNR 20 at Kottayam, Kochi and Agartala. The Thai Rubber Association publishes central market prices for unsmoked sheet, cup lump and field latex, and FOB Laem Chabang offer prices. The Shanghai Futures Exchange and the Shanghai International Energy Exchange publish daily settlements for natural rubber and TSR 20 futures. Useful for understanding the gap between local and export prices.
If you are sourcing, start with the exchange benchmarks and work down to local market prices to estimate origin premiums. If you are selling, compare your offers to the SICOM futures curve and the Malaysian physical grades on the rubber page. If you are an analyst, cite the exchange and government sources directly and use these pages as a daily aggregation layer.
For operators concerned with supply chain disruption (ports, security, logistics, weather, currency) in addition to price, Region Alert publishes daily intelligence briefings on commodity-producing regions including Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. See intelligence plans »