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International prices: Industrial rubber

What a kilo of industrial rubber costs at customs across 11 markets in the Americas, year by year and by country of origin, from official United Nations trade data. Includes the Mellkar industrial rubber Index, the monthly base-100 series for its basket of headings.

Mellkar industrial rubber Index

Base 100 = February 2024

118.5 — May 2026 · provisional

+6% against the previous month

The Mellkar industrial rubber Index stands at 118.5 in May 2026, a rise of 6% against April 2026. It is built from imports of 2 tariff headings declared to UN Comtrade by 11 markets in the Americas and Spain, with each market’s price weighted by the kilos that actually came in. Base 100 = February 2024.

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MonthIndexChg.against the previous monthCells
May 2026provisional118.5 +6%10
Apr 2026111.8 +1%12
Mar 2026110.3 +1%15
Feb 2026108.9 -3%16
Jan 2026111.7 0%16
Dec 2025111.6 0%13
Nov 2025111.4 +2%14
Oct 2025109.5 -3%14
Sep 2025112.8 -3%14
Aug 2025116.2 -1%14
Jul 2025117.2 -2%14
Jun 2025120.0 -2%14
May 2025122.5 +1%14
Apr 2025120.8 0%16
Mar 2025121.1 0%16
Feb 2025120.9 0%16
Jan 2025120.6 +2%16
Dec 2024118.4 0%18
Nov 2024118.7 0%18
Oct 2024118.3 0%18
Sep 2024118.3 +4%18
Aug 2024113.6 +3%18
Jul 2024110.5 0%18
Jun 2024110.3 +3%18
May 2024107.4 +5%18
Apr 2024102.7 +2%18
Mar 2024100.3 0%17
Feb 2024100.0—18

It measures what a kilo of this material costs landed in the markets tracked, with the basket’s headings weighted by imported volume. It is a Laspeyres anchored to the base: each month is compared with the base month using only the cells present in both, so the index does not move because the set of reporters changed. Months marked provisional rest on fewer countries and will be revised as Comtrade completes the period.

Mellkar Index — the Americas and Spain

Source
UN Comtrade — United Nations International Trade Statistics Database
Flow
Imports, CIF value
Unit
US dollars per kilo
Years
2021–2025
Markets
11, the Americas and SpainColombia, Brazil, Mexico, United States, Canada, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain
Updated
August 26, 2026

How these figures are calculated What this material is and how to specify it

Every heading at a glance

HeadingLatest monthAnnual average
June 2026Ships atFOBLands atCIFYear
Farm-grown
Natural rubberHS 4001Latex, ribbed smoked sheet and crepe. The only farm-grown material on this list, which is why its price follows the Southeast Asian harvest rather than the oil market.2.311.982.282025
Petrochemical
Synthetic rubberHS 4002Every synthetic polymer added together. Useful for comparing markets at a glance; for buying, the two subheadings below say far more.2.872.462.532024
SBR, styrene-butadieneHS 400219The rubber of tyre tread and sports flooring. Solid forms only here; SBR latex is declared under a different subheading.2.722.342.392024
EPDM, ethylene-propylene-dieneHS 400270It takes sun, ozone and water without cracking. It is the coloured granule of running tracks and playgrounds, and that is what you are paying for.2.792.932.952025
Compounded rubber, unvulcanisedHS 4005Ready-formulated compounds, fillers and additives included, set to be moulded. They cost more than the raw polymer because the work is already in them.4.163.753.562024
Recycled and reclaimed
Reclaimed rubberHS 4003Recovered material returned to primary form. Low price and very uneven quality: two lots of this heading may have nothing in common.0.870.900.932024
Rubber waste, parings and scrapHS 4004End-of-life tyres, granulate and powder. It is the feedstock of recycled flooring and by far the cheapest heading of them all.0.290.320.242025
Finished product
Rubber floor coveringsHS 401691The finished product: vulcanised tiles, rolls and mats. Comparing it with the granulate it comes from is the fastest way to see what the processing is worth.2.233.262.452024

The two right-hand columns are averages for the year shown in the last column, which is not the same across headings: each shows the last year countries reported in full. The latest-month column is a monthly corridor figure and runs two years ahead of those averages — it is for today’s cost, not for comparing against them.

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