The Federal Antimonopoly Service in Russia has asked major tyre manufacturers for production, supply and export information relating to 2025. The agency intends to use the responses to assess competition, Interfax reported on April 10, 2026, citing its press service.
Several product groups are covered
The requests are not limited to ordinary car tyres. Vedomosti's account describes coverage extending to truck and light-truck tyres, agricultural and forestry equipment, specialised transport, aviation and motorcycles. The stated purpose is to identify areas that may require competition measures.
For context, Interfax also cited marking-system operator CRPT's figures showing domestic tyre production of 35.1 million units in 2025, a decrease of 21%. That is a production statistic, not a finding about the conduct of any particular manufacturer.
Data collection comes before a conclusion
The announcement describes a request for information. It does not announce a fine, identify a prohibited agreement or set a new retail price. Reading those outcomes into the notice would turn a fact-gathering step into a decision that the report does not contain.
The broad product coverage also matters when interpreting the eventual data. Counting tyres as individual units is useful, but a unit is not a uniform commercial product. A passenger-car tyre and an aviation tyre belong to different applications; combining quantities does not make their specifications or buyers interchangeable.
- The reporting year for the requested operating data is 2025.
- The date of the announced information-gathering exercise is in 2026.
- Production, supply and exports describe different movements and should not be added without checking their definitions.
That last point is an editorial explanation rather than a statement of the regulator's methodology. A tyre made during one period may be held in stock or dispatched later. A shipment can also form part of an export total. Without knowing the definitions, simply summing those figures risks counting the same item more than once.
For readers following the sector, the next substantive development would be an announced assessment or a clearly specified measure. The April report establishes the information request; it does not establish its eventual result.
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