commentary & current events firegeezer on 27 Jun 2007 11:01 am
Chinese-Made Tires To Be Recalled
A TIRE IMPORTER/DISTRIBUTOR IN NEW JERSEY has been ordered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recall 450,000 light truck tires that were made in China and sold in the U.S. in 2005 and 2006.
The importer, Foreign Tire Sales of Union, New Jersey, claims that a massive recall as ordered would force it into bankruptcy. However, the NHTSA is brushing off that claim and is also probing the Chinese manufacturer.
The United States imports roughly 32 million tires annually from China, according to the Rubber Manufacturers Association, a trade group. It also imports tires from Canada, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
The Reuters story is HERE.
Firegeezer says: Were you aware that we were importing all those tires from China? I sure wasn’t. But I’m having a little trouble generating any sympathy for the importer. They knew going into the deal that China is largely unethical and unreliable as a business partner. Ya’ takes your chances when you’re dealing with them. It was lucrative for a while, but it came back to bite them. Personally, I would never knowingly buy a tire made in China.
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