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I really don’t care. I still won’t buy food that comes from China. I just purchased a tire for my flatbed trailer that I haul my tractor on. Most tires for trailers seem to come from China. The guy at the tire store said it’s getting harder and harder to get American made tires. I purchased a Goodyear tire even though it cost $20.00 more.

U.S. authorities last month ordered a recall of up to 450,000 tires made by Hangzhou Zhongce after its American distributor, Foreign Tire Sales Inc. of Union, N.J., said they lacked a gum strip, a key safety feature that binds the belts of a tire to each other. FTS said some tires had a gum strip that was about half the width of the 0.6 millimeter strip that the company expected. FTS was sued May 4 by the families of two men who were killed when a van in which they were riding crashed in Pennsylvania on Aug. 12, 2006. The lawsuit says the van had Hangzhou Zhongce tires. Hangzhou Zhongce has denied supplying faulty products.

... right in the second part of the article I posted ... !! So it was smart of you to pay the extra twenty bucks!