Tire market in the United States - facts & statistics

To fully meet the demand for tires in the U.S., the country relies on imports, especially from Asian countries. In 2020, the U.S. imported around 34.9 million units of passenger car tires from Thailand and about 13.6 million units from South Korea.

Tire market segments

The most used tires around the world today can be categorized under the pneumatic segment: they operate with air or gas under pressure. Their primary purposes are to provide traction between the vehicle and the road as well as shock absorption for impact.
Tires can be further categorized based on the type of vehicle they’re used for and whether they’re used on new vehicles coming from the factory - known as original equipment (OE) - or serving as a replacement for such tires.
Replacement passenger car tires are the leading segment with shipments of over 220,000 units in 2020. In the same year, some 36 million units of OE passenger car tires were shipped in the U.S., a decrease of almost 20 percent compared with 2019. This has likely been caused by a worldwide drop in car production in 2020, triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent shortage of chips.

Leading companies

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. are among the key tire makers headquartered in the United States. Goodyear reported a revenue of more than 12 billion U.S. dollars in 2020 and ranked fourth in the list of largest tire producers in the world. The Japanese multinational corporation Bridgestone was the global leader in tire manufacturing in 2020 with a revenue of around 27 billion U.S. dollars. Michelin, a France-based manufacturer, ranked second with a revenue of almost 25 billion U.S. dollars in the same year.

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