Polybutadiene rubber: Trading

The only synthetic rubber with exchange futures

What this tab covers How it is bought and sold: buyers and sellers, price benchmarks and who publishes them, exchanges, contract types, traders, how Indian buyers price it, recent price points, and good sources to follow.

Who buys, and where

China
South Korea
Russia
Japan and Thailand
Singapore

Who sells, and from where

India
ASEAN tyre plants
Turkey
Brazil
Europe

Price benchmarks

Benchmark	Publisher	Basis
SHFE butadiene rubber futures	Shanghai Futures Exchange	futures, daily
BR (high-cis) CFR China and CFR India	ICIS, Polymerupdate	spot, weekly
BR FD NWE	ICIS	monthly

Exchanges

Venue	Contract	Notes
Shanghai Futures Exchange	butadiene rubber (BR) futures, 5 t lots (indicative), listed 2023	only exchange-traded synthetic rubber contract

Contract types

monthly contracts with tyre makers linked to butadiene
spot container sales
captive supply in tyre groups

Traders and distributors

Chinese futures participants and traders
producer sales networks
Indian distributors

How Indian buyers price it

Indian tyre makers price BR on CFR India against Korean, Chinese and Russian offers; Reliance sets domestic prices with reference to import parity (indicative).
No current Indian anti-dumping duty on BR was found in sources reached.

Recent price points

Date	Price	Basis	Source
8 Sep 2025	$1,095/t butadiene	CFR China	S&P Global Platts via butadiene tile
Nov 2025	CNY7,021/t (about $988/t) butadiene	China domestic	GlobalData via Just Auto, Dec 2025
2025	BR levels not published in sources reached	n/a	SHFE data not fetched

Good sources to follow

European Rubber Journalfreemium newsletter · Crain

synthetic rubber plants, prices and trade

S&P Global Commodity Insights chemicals newsfreemium newsletter · S&P Global

butadiene and rubber markets

Mysteel Globalfreemium research site · Mysteel

Chinese synthetic rubber prices and futures