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1. A series of events will be held early next month in Yunnan Province to mark the centenary the natural rubber industry in China.
2. Surging demand helped increase consumption of natural rubber used in tires, doubling the price in 2009.
3. Surging car demand helped increase consumption of natural rubber used to make tires, doubling the price of the commodity in 2009.
4. The price also increased as an advance in oil boosted the appeal of natural rubber as an alternative to synthetic products made from petroleum.
5. Natural rubber and petroleum products were the province's biggest imports, customs authorities said.
6. Fan said 80 percent of China's natural rubber consumption is from imports, so adding import tariffs on natural rubber is not reasonable.
7. Futures also declined as crude oil dropped, weakening the appeal of natural rubber as an alternative to synthetic products used in tires.
8. The prices of natural rubber futures contracts traded on SHFE have also become the major force leading the global market trend.
9. The island is a national production base for fruit and vegetables and the nation's largest producer of natural rubber.
10. The huge consumption of natural rubber is due to the increase in automobile production.
noun
1. an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products
Synonym: rubber India rubber gum elastic caoutchouc