While most tire makers doing business in the U.S. had a record year, Taiwan tire maker Federal Corp. said sales volume in the U.S. dropped 82% in 2021 because of elevated import duties of 84.75%.
Tire companies from South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand have petitioned the U.S. Department of Commerce to review U.S. import duties imposed on passenger and light truck tires from those nations in June 2021.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei mayoral candidate Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) yesterday outlined his ideas for solving long-term traffic problems in the city’s Neihu District (內湖) that involve adding two sections to the MRT metropolitan railway system and four road construction projects.
The traffic congestion problem in Neihu has over the past few weeks been the focus of a verbal battle between several mayoral candidates, with Chen announcing that he would try to solve it if he were to become mayor.
Chen said two main roots of the problem are that the Sun Yat-sen Freeway (Freeway No. 1) runs through the district, causing