Introduction

Hidde P. Smit
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Hidde P. Smit: Economic and Social Institute

Chapter 1 in Forecasts for the World Rubber Economy to the Year 2000, 1984, pp 1-11 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The last decades of the century-long history of rubber use has been unusually turbulent for both natural rubber (NR) and synthetic rubber (SR). In the automotive sector, which absorbs a major part of world rubber supply, demand has been fluctuating as a result of the oil-crisis and the subsequent recession. Tire technology developments have changed the relative shares of demand for NR and SR. The oil-crisis has also had a different impact on the cost structures of natural and synthetic rubbers.

Keywords: Radial Tire; Natural Rubber; Commercial Vehicle; Production Policy; Automotive Sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07411-2_1

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