Indonesia’s natural rubber exports fell 23% in the first half of this year.

Indonesia exported 649,000 tons of natural rubber (excluding compound rubber) in the first half of this year, according to data released by the country's official statistics agency. This volume is 23% lower than that shipped in the same period last year. The Asian country is the world's third-largest exporter of natural rubber, behind only Thailand and Ivory Coast, which shipped 1.203 million tons and 904,000 tons, respectively, of the commodity in the first six months of the year.

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.