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EU duties on Chinese car tyres stop at the UK border, raising questions over future import flows, pricing and trade action.
Halfords is lifting Autocentre margins by extracting more value from each vehicle, even as replacement tyre demand remains weak.
New Bridgegate Tyres will distribute Universal Tyres across a designated North East territory under Tubeline’s UK network.
Better products, stronger distribution and shifting supply chains are making the budget tyre label increasingly difficult to define.
The search for a 6PPD alternative is widening, but any viable replacement could trigger years of tyre testing and supply-chain work.
Apollo will source some European agricultural tyres externally after deciding replacement capacity would not be economical.