Jim,

Right about commodities futures reports. You can find whatever results your heart desires in these reports I find. There's a Thai company called Thaitex Group that manufactures things like medical gloves and FDA type products. They report buying about 3MT of rubber alone annually for export products. If you want daily updates or don't have them already, on USA rubber price Index use the previous exmundi.com site for quotes as well as graphs/charts on history of all commodities not only rubber.