New York – National Highway Traffic Safety Recalls China Imported Tires.

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New York – Federal safety officials have ordered a tiny tire importer to recall as many as 450,000 tires that it bought from a Chinese manufacturer and sold to U.S. distributors.

Foreign Tire Sales Inc., of Union, NJ said an unknown number of the light truck radials it imported since 2002 from Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co., of Hangzhou, China, could suffer tread separation, a problem that led to the nation’s largest tire recall in 2000.

According to the filing, the Hangzhou tires at issue were sold under at least four brand names – Westlake, Compass, Telluride and YKS – in these sizes: LT235/75R-15; LT225/75R-16; LT235/85R-16; LT245/75R-16; LT265/75R-16; and LT3X10.5-15. [AP]