Japan's disaster shows how linked world is U.S. tire/rubber industry's ties run deep

摘要

The Earth, once a place of vast distances, is shrinking, and along with it the rubber industry. How the news of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan rippled throughout the globe clearly shows that fact.All eyes were on Japan when the disaster struck the world's third-largest economy, home to some of the largest players in the rubber industry. The epicenter of the quake was off the coast, but the destruction was felt throughout the nation.