The reason I stay away from Chinese tires or anything I can is because they (the Chinese companies. have been caught, quite often, initially making tires to standards and then cutting corners after awhile oping no one notices. They do this with toys (adding lead to them). Once something like a tire is made, its hard to tell if meets standards unless it fails or unless a company takes a random sample and tests them. Plus there are many news articles about how they devalue their money so things are cheaper,then Anerican Manufacturers go out of business and then we have no choice but to buy their junk.