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China: Tires in US recall meet safety standards
(AP)
Updated: 2007-07-18 19:32
Chinese regulators have concluded China-made tires at the center of a
massive US recall controversy meet American safety standards, a
government spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Officials inspected the Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co. and tested tires of
the same type as those sold in the United States, said the spokeswoman
for the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine, or AQSIQ. She would give only her surname, Xia.
"They found that all of the examples meet American standards," Xia told
The Associated Press. Xia said she did not know how many tires were
tested.
Chinese news reports put the number at three.
US authorities ordered a recall of up to 450,000 tires made by Hangzhou
Zhongce after its distributor, Foreign Tire Sales Inc. of Union, New
Jersey, said they lacked a key component, known as a gum strip, that
binds together belts of a tire.
Xia said she did not know whether the tests confirmed the tires lacked a
gum strip or whether authorities were sure they were representative of
those sold in the United States.
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