"After Burma?s military regime SPDC banned rubber export to China, the rubber price has decreased down and thousands of rubber compound sheets have left in the traders? stores, according to Mr. Nai Plai, a Mon State local rubber exporter to China. The rubber price has decreased since last September (in 2004) and the current a drought compound rubber sheet price is 430 Kyat per pound (~ 0.5 US Dollar). It was 540 Kyat per pound in mid-2004, he added..."