Rubber waste, parings and scrap: international price

HS 4004 · Recycled and reclaimed

What a kilo of rubber waste costs leaving the exporting country and what it costs landing in 11 markets across the Americas, year by year and month by month, from official United Nations customs data.

End-of-life tyres, granulate and powder. It is the feedstock of recycled flooring and by far the cheapest heading of them all.

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 See every heading What this material is and how to specify it

Ships at: 0.32FOB average 2025
Lands at: 0.24CIF average 2025
Reference: 0.29corridor CIF · June 2026

“Ships at” and “Lands at” are the same shipment declared from both ends: what the 8 tracked origins send to these markets and what the 11 markets declare receiving from them, in 2025. The “reference” is the most recent monthly figure, which is the one to use for a sense of today's cost. The corridor covers 88% of what these markets import under this heading.

Recent months · through July 2026

Same customs data, month by month instead of year by year. It arrives two or three months late rather than two years, so it is as close to today's price as this source allows. In exchange it is noisier: in a country that moves little volume, a single large shipment shifts the month's average. Read the trend across several months, not the jump from one.

Lands in

US dollars per kilo
Country	Feb 2026	Mar 2026	Apr 2026	May 2026	Jun 2026	Jul 2026
United States	0.24	0.22	0.21	0.22	0.25	—
Canada	0.35	0.28	0.21	0.33	0.30	—
Mexico	0.12	0.18	0.14	0.18	—	—
Spain	0.68	0.57	0.09	0.69	—	—
Brazil	0.93	0.91	1.01	0.49	0.70	1.01
Colombia	0.60	0.52	0.04	—	—	—
Argentina	0.33	—	—	—	—	—
Chile	—	0.79	—	1.29	0.94	—

Ships from

US dollars per kilo
Country	Feb 2026	Mar 2026	Apr 2026	May 2026	Jun 2026	Jul 2026
Canada	0.22	0.18	0.19	0.20	0.24	—
United States	0.47	0.41	0.28	0.64	0.38	—
Spain	0.22	0.32	0.57	0.32	—	—
Italy	0.70	1.06	1.07	1.33	—	—
India	0.16	0.74	0.89	0.81	0.87	—
Brazil	0.12	0.16	0.15	0.19	0.56	0.41

Ships from

FOB price: what the seller charges, loaded at its own port, before freight and insurance. The volume is everything that country exported to the whole world, not just to the Americas. The same country can appear in both tables: the large ones manufacture and sell to the region while also buying abroad for their own industry.

Country	USD/kg2025	Chg.2024 → 2025	Volume2025
Canada	0.19	-18%	73,808 t
United States	0.43	+11%	47,506 t
Spain	0.39	+2%	3,206 t
Italy	1.10	+26%	3,015 t
Mexico	0.46	+3%	2,341 t
India	0.76	-2%	1,410 t
Brazil	0.52	+26%	900 t
France	0.96	-29%	786 t

Lands in

CIF price: what the buyer pays, freight and insurance included, before duties. The volume is everything that market imported, wherever it came from. The same country can appear in both tables: these are two different flows, not the same material going round in a circle.

Country	USD/kg2025	Chg.2024 → 2025	Volume2025
United States	0.22	-19%	79,629 t
Canada	0.31	-7%	40,630 t
Mexico	0.13	-31%	35,675 t
Spain	0.23	-68%	12,986 t
Brazil	0.48	-27%	6,961 t
Peru	0.25	-25%	1,846 t · 2024
Colombia	0.64	+48%	662 t
Argentina	0.42	—	451 t
Chile	0.88	+81%	340 t
Costa Rica	0.42	+161%	185 t · 2024
Ecuador	0.28	0%	48 t

Series 2021–2025

Lands in

US dollars per kilo
Country	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
United States	0.28	0.28	0.26	0.27	0.22
Canada	0.33	0.38	0.39	0.34	0.31
Mexico	0.21	0.26	0.27	0.19	0.13
Spain	1.77	2.00	1.21	0.74	0.23
Brazil	0.44	0.66	0.69	0.65	0.48
Peru	0.77	0.36	0.34	0.25	—
Colombia	0.41	0.92	0.56	0.43	0.64
Argentina	0.25	0.31	—	—	0.42
Chile	0.56	1.00	0.76	0.49	0.88
Costa Rica	0.11	0.15	0.16	0.42	—
Ecuador	0.20	—	—	0.28	0.28

Ships from

US dollars per kilo
Country	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Canada	0.25	—	0.24	0.24	0.19
United States	0.54	0.54	0.51	0.39	0.43
Spain	0.61	0.53	0.40	0.38	0.39
Italy	1.26	1.43	1.05	0.87	1.10
Mexico	0.39	0.37	0.41	0.45	0.46
India	0.45	0.64	0.60	0.78	0.76
Brazil	0.27	0.29	0.53	0.41	0.52
France	1.24	1.18	0.30	1.36	0.96

Where it comes from, in 2025

Everything the markets in the table above imported under this heading, broken down by country of origin. Each origin carries its own price: the gap between them is usually the grade of the material, not the freight.

Origin	USD/kg	Volume	Of total
United States	0.22	76,540 t	35%
Canada	0.19	73,732 t	30%
Mexico	0.50	3,713 t	4%
Germany	1.67	1,061 t	4%
Italy	0.70	2,213 t	3%
Spain	0.38	3,461 t	3%
Denmark	0.62	2,050 t	3%
South Africa	0.43	2,185 t	2%

What this heading covers

Heading 4004 is waste, parings and scrap of unhardened rubber, plus the powder and granules obtained from them. By volume, and by a wide margin, it is shredded end-of-life tyre.

It is the feedstock of gym flooring, of the cushioning base under sports tracks, and of much of the recycled rubber moving through the market.

Why it is the cheapest heading of them all

Because the material has already lived a life. The kilo sits far below virgin polymer, and that distance is what explains why the vast majority of gym, weights and functional-training floors are made from recycled SBR rather than petrochemical SBR.

What you buy is tyre powder pressed with a polyurethane binder and cured in a mould. Its natural colour is the black or grey of tyre carbon black; it takes pigment, with a short palette and limited colour stability under sun.

What to check before requesting a quote

Particle size rules. A 1-to-4 mm granule for a wearing layer is not the same as a 2-to-5.7 mm one for a cushioning base. Ask for the range in millimetres, never just “granulate”.

Then cleanliness: steel and textile fibre left over from the tyre. And the shredding method, because cryogenic and mechanical grinding do not yield the same granule or the same behaviour in the mould.

And mind what you are comparing. This heading's price is bulk granulate, not finished flooring — that is declared under 401691 and costs considerably more, because it carries binder, mould, energy and margin inside.

Need the price of a specific grade?

These figures average an entire market. For one grade, one format and one volume, the gap against the average can be wide in either direction. Write to us and we will look at it with your specification in hand.

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