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11 Tyre Corporate companies produce in Europe:
Bridgestone Europe, Continental, Cooper Tires, Goodyear Dunlop Tires Europe, Marangoni, Michelin, Mitas, Nokian Tyres, Pirelli Tyre, Trelleborg Wheel Systems and Vredestein.

7 out of the 10 world leaders (which globally represent 77% of world sales) have wide production facilities in Europe.

Tyre production: data from major markets

Around 10 % of the production is now located in new EU countries, e.g. Poland (31 million units in 2007), Slovakia, Romania and Slovenia, where the potential growth in demand is higher than in the Western part of Europe.
The companies have streamlined their manufacturing operations in Western Europe and have progressively orientated the production towards high performance tyres.

Tyre replacement market

25% of the production is sold to the vehicle manufacturers, and 75% to replacement market.
These figures do not include sales of imported tyres from non-ETRMA members on the European market estimated around 30%.

Tyre sales on the European market	Million units
	2003	2005	2007
Passenger car	193	181	182
Commercial vehicle	28	26	27
Agricultural and Industrial	3	2	2

   Sources: Europool

Increased imports of tyres on the European market

This part has gradually increased as the imports into EU have reached + 110 % from 2001 to 2007 with a particular increase of 47% from 2005 to 2007. The total number of imported tyres in 2007 represented more than 200 million units.

   Sources: Eurostat

Over the same period, the EU exports have grown of 50%, which represents less half of the imports increase and demonstrates that the share of imported tyres on the European market is constantly growing putting a strong pressure on EU tyre manufacturers.

This trade distortion is principally resulting from increased imports from emerging Asian markets i.e. China, India, Indonesia and South Korea, which account for 38% of total imports in EU in 2007; China being the largest exporter to EU (after Japan) reaching 19.5% of extra-EU imports. This share is growing: it represented only 4.8 % in 2000 !

EU tyre exports

EU tyre exports represented in 2007 more than 65 million units. They are mainly concentrated on NAFTA countries (27 %) and on Eastern Europe countries (27%). This last figure confirms the European tyre manufacturers contribution to Eastern countries economic development.
The technical barriers to enter the Chinese and Korean markets are confirmed with the low exports share to these countries, i.e. less than 2%.

   Sources: Eurostat

Nafta: Canada, Mexico and the US
Eastern Europe: EU candidate and potential candidate countries, Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine
GCC: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates
Far East: Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territory, and Syria
Emerging Asian markets: China, India, Indonesia, and South Korea

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