As the year winds to a close, tire dealers throughout the U.S. find themselves coping with a growing dichotomy—rising consumer demand versus product shortages and looming price increases.

The International Motor Sports Association and Sports Car Club of America have agreed to work together to foster the next generation of amateur and professional motorsports enthusiasts, including drivers, crew and course workers.

Michelin North America Inc. is expanding its partnership with the International Motor Sports Association.

Imports of consumer and commercial tires into the U.S. fell by double digits in the first half of 2020, reflecting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the marketplace.

Capital spending on new capacities by the world's leading tire makers in the past 12 months was up marginally over 2018-19 at nearly $5 billion. Here's a look at how that money is being invested.

The term "double-digit"—as in double-digit decline—permeated the tire industry's financial reporting through the first half of fiscal 2020, but what does the rest of the year hold in store for the industry and its various sectors?

With a few notable exceptions, fiscal 2019 was a flat to down year for most of the world's leading tire makers.

WASHINGTON—Researchers for the U.S. International Trade Commission have concluded that passenger and light truck tires imported from South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam the past few years "significantly undersold" similar tires produced domestically.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has opened a regulatory review of antidumping and countervailing duty orders imposed in 2015 on imports of certain passenger and light truck tires from China, as proscribed in the original orders.

PARIS—Formula 1 racing's much-anticipated shift to 18-inch rim diameter race tires next season has been postponed until 2022, a byproduct of the international series' efforts to deal with fallout from the global COVID-19 pandemic.

WASHINGTON—Although the Commerce Department has stamped its approval on investigations into the alleged dumping of passenger and light truck tires from three Asian nations and Taiwan, resolving the issue could take until March 2021 until a final determination is reached.

WASHINGTON—Eleven U.S. senators from seven states with tire factories have voiced their support for an investigation into "unfairly traded" tire imports from South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

PITTSBURGH—The United Steelworkers union is applauding the U.S. Commerce Department's decision to initiate an investigation of Vietnam's currency manipulation as an illegal subsidy on passenger and light truck tires.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Commerce has voted to initiate investigations to determine whether passenger vehicle and light truck tires from South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam are being dumped in the U.S.

WASHINGTON—Is the U.S. tire industry really being threatened by rising consumer tire imports from South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam? That's the industry's million dollar question.