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China says alleged faulty tires up to U.S. standards, blames misuse for fatal accident |
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15:18, July 18, 2007 |
China''''s quality watchdog has put its weight behind domestic tyre-manufacturer Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co. Ltd, which has been accused of exporting faulty tires to the United States, insisting that they met U.S. safety standards.
Wang Xin, an official in charge of testing and inspection with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (GAQSIQ), said the administration had carried out tests on the same models of the alleged flawed tyre and found that all the examined items met the U.S. safety requirements.
On June 11, Foreign Tyre Sales, Inc. (FTS) submitted a "Non-Compliance Information Report" to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), blaming the light truck radial tires (LTR) manufactured by the Chinese company for a road accident which killed two people in Pennsylvania last August.
The report said the LTR were manufactured without a gum strip or with an insufficient gum strip between belts or other construction to keep the belts from separating.
The U.S. regulators ordered a recall of 450,000 tires following the release of the FTS report.
Shen Jinrong, the board chairman of Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co. Ltd, said FTS and subsequent U.S. media reports were inconsistent with the facts. "We have probed into this issue and found that our products meet the U.S. import safety requirements. The real cause of the fatal accident was the misuse of the tires," he said.
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