Chinese firm denies faulty tire supplies
From Times Wire Services
The Chinese maker of tires at the center of a U.S. recall controversy denied that it supplied faulty products and accused its American distributor of making the claim to gain an advantage in a commercial dispute.
U.S. regulators have ordered Foreign Tire Sales Inc. of Union, N.J., to recall as many as 450,000 tires after the company said an unknown number of light-truck radials made by Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co. could suffer tread separation.
Hangzhou Zhongce issued a statement saying that it hadn’t found “the faults cited” by Foreign Tire Sales and that its tires met U.S. safety standards. The Chinese firm accused the New Jersey company of making the claims because of a dispute in which Foreign Tire Sales sued Hangzhou Zhongce in May.
