11-12-2010, 01:26 PM
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Re: Snow tire question.
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Originally Posted by benebob
Read it somewhere when the tariff on tires came out.. Didn't believe it at first but doing the eyeball research looking at tires it seems that nearly all the non OEM Michelins I've seen on cars say Made in Romania on the sidewall. Every single truck Mich. say made in romania. Never did see a cycle tire made by them that didn't say made in romania.
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Interesting research. Unfortunately, the conclusion is incorrect. Michelin doesn't import heavy truck tires from over seas at any large volume. Only 2 plants in north america make heavy truck tires, I work in one of them and the other is in nova scotia. There are also numerous car and light truck tire plants spread across the southeast with the most being in south carolina. They do import car and light truck tires, but they churn out plenty of them here in the good old USA. I'm not at liberty to write about sales figures, but 80% import is far from correct.
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