Does Tire Industry Gets Flat?

Khodrocar – Recently, drivers of heavy duty vehicles protested because of the increment of insurance tariffs and prices of their vehicle parts.

For this reason, Iran’s organizations like Ministry of Roads & Urban Development entered the field to solve the problem by drivers’ cooperation. One of the problems truck drivers and drivers are always in a challenge with, is the increase in the price of truck parts.

Domestic companies provide 70 percent of tire demand although in the field of heavy duty vehicles and buses, 80 percent of demands are provided by imports.

According to secretary of the Association of Iran Tire Importers, not only the import tariffs of tires increased by 6 percent, but also their imports faced a major reduce in comparison with last year in the first two months. On the other hand, director of Association of Iran Tire Manufacturers announced that domestic producers are allowed to increase the prices by 9 percent. It seems that truck drivers’ problem for supplying tires continues and it is not going to be solved.

Mohammadreza Taghiganji, chairman of Tire Industry Association tells Khodrocar regarding the issue: "We received the license for price increment from support organization and it will be implemented today, after three years.”

He continues: "We will not have any problem with the reduction of tire imports. The tires imported into the market is much more expensive than domestic goods. The price increment is just 9 percent. The price was stable for 4 years. Domestic tires except heavy duty tires which have wires in it, will supply market demand.”

According to Ganji, 50% of truck tires are produced domestically and 50percent of them are imported ones. We will try to make the first part 100 percent.

He continues: "The government will allocate 420 thousand IRRs dollars both to producers for raw material supplies and to the importers for imports.

Ganji also tells about the license renewal of dealers: "We will not renew the licenses of those how broke the law, quantitative and qualitative.”

Khodrocar – Considering the economic situation, we hope that heavy duty vehicle drivers would not face any problem like prices increments and supply shortages. This way will they be damaged and many industries are related to them like agricultural products and fuel supply.


Khodrocar Reporter: Sepideh Ghazinejad
Khodrocar Translator: Maziyar Jafarieh