Synthetic rubber imports in the same period a year low

In the first half of 2005, slowing down the development of China's auto industry, tire and rubber products industry exports face trade friction, the lower reaches of the synthetic rubber supply and demand have an impact. In the first half of China's synthetic rubber production growth rate of 7.7 percent over the first half of 2004 low of 14 percent. Over the same period, total imports of 520,000 tons of synthetic rubber, up 6.5 percent decline, its lowest level for the same period in previous years, but the degree of dependence on external remained at 40%.

By rising international oil prices pulling, synthetic rubber prices and always in high, and further affected the current volume of imports and the cost of imports. Synthetic rubber imports in the first half of the amount of 840,000,000 U.S. dollars, up 24.1 percent; the average import price rose 32.7 percent. Synthetic rubber imports as the largest species, styrene-butadiene rubber imports in the first half of a reduction of 15.1 percent over the same period last year, but the amount of imports and the average import price rose 11.3 percent and 31.1 percent. As the prices of raw materials butadiene, tight supply, so that domestic production of butadiene rubber plant operating rate declined year-on-year decrease in production. Although the result of high prices, imports decreased by a small range. The amount of imports and the average import price increase in more than 30%. Butyl rubber, neoprene, nitrile rubber and ethylene-propylene rubber and other species due to limited domestic supply has been a long-term dependence on imports, the imports continued to increase, but lower than the same period in 2004 a lot. Synthetic rubber in the first half of net imports to 473,000 tons over the same period last year, a decrease of 7.1 percent, and net imports rose by 22%.