Sri Lanka’s rubber industry is treading a precarious line between resilience and risk. While global demand still rewards its competitive value-added products, the sector’s underlying fragilities—aging plantations, labour shortages, persistent disease, and increasingly erratic rainfall—threaten to undercut these gains.
Highlights
• July exports rebound, second-best month of 2025
• Seven-month exports slip on weaker tire and tube demand
• Five-year car import ban lifted, boosting rubber outlook