An anti-dumping suit in the US during a sustained period of global shortages indicates that some strange economics are at work in the industrial tyre market.
The industrial tyre market has been in a state of flux for several years. The problems go back to September 2003 when a massive fire destroyed Bridgestone’s large OTR radial tyre plant in Shimonoseki, taking out a key supply source just as a worldwide surge in demand was under way, led by the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, China, India)....
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