After steep drop in raw material prices, none of the leading domestic tyre manufacturers rolled back the tyre prices.

Indian rubber growers and the tyre industry are once again at loggerheads over the issue of rubber imports.

In December, global rubber prices climbed up by Rs 11 to Rs 175 per kg while domestic prices failed to move in tandem and dropped by Rs 6.

At a time when pressure is mounting against futures trade in natural rubber, support for this system of trade has come from an unexpected q...