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Quick summary: TraceX helps tyre companies in France meet EUDR requirements with automated Due Diligence Statement (DDS) generation, farm-level traceability, and deforestation risk verification.
EUDR DDS for Tyres Supply Chain in France requires companies to demonstrate that all rubber-based products entering the French market are deforestation-free, legally sourced, and fully traceable to origin. Importers must collect geolocation data for rubber plantations, assess deforestation risk, verify supplier legality, and maintain a transparent chain of custody. The Due Diligence Statement (DDS) must be submitted through the EU Information System before placement on the French market, detailing risk mitigation measures and compliance evidence. Robust data management, supplier verification, and continuous monitoring are essential to meet France’s strict EUDR enforcement standards.
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) imposes strict traceability and legality requirements on high-risk commodities such as natural rubber, widely used in tyres and related rubber goods. Under EUDR, all operators placing rubber or rubber-derived products on the EU market must ensure they are deforestation-free, legally produced, and traceable to their plantation of origin, including those classified under key HS codes.
Natural rubber is explicitly regulated under EUDR because plantation expansion in producing regions has historically been associated with deforestation. The following HS codes (HSNs) fall under the EUDR scope for France’s tyre supply chain:
These categories capture both raw rubber inputs and rubber-based finished goods that French operators must assess for EUDR compliance.
France is a major tyre manufacturing and trading hub, home to global industry leaders and a large automotive ecosystem. Companies importing natural rubber, rubber sheets, compounds, or finished tyres (HS 4001–4017) must adhere to EUDR obligations, including plantation-level geolocation, legality verification, risk scoring, and submission of Due Diligence Statements (DDS) for each regulated consignment.
The scope covers natural rubber, rubber intermediates, and finished goods across the full HS 4001–4017 range, ensuring wide coverage of France’s tyre and rubber supply chain.
For France, EUDR compliance spans the entire lifecycle—from rubber cultivation in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, to imports through French ports, tyre manufacturing, distribution, and cross-EU trade. French operators must digitally trace each shipment (HS 4001–4017) back to plantation origin, validate legal production, and prove that all inputs are deforestation-free. Meeting these standards is essential for maintaining supply stability, ensuring environmental compliance, and safeguarding France’s leadership in Europe’s tyre and mobility sectors.
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French tyre manufacturers and importers must trace every batch of natural rubber back to its exact plantation boundary using polygon GPS data.
Challenges include:
For tyre companies handling high-volume rubber blends, achieving batch-level traceability is operationally complex and resource-intensive.
EUDR requires proof that no rubber originated from land deforested after 31 December 2020.
French operators must navigate:
Incorrect classification risks shipment rejection or penalties.
French tyre companies must verify that rubber was legally harvested according to producing-country laws including land rights, environmental permits, and labour standards.
Difficulties include:
This creates significant legal and operational due-diligence burdens.
Tyre supply chains often involve:
Rubber from multiple plantations is frequently aggregated and blended, making it hard to maintain segregated EUDR-compliant batches.
Ensuring visibility across all tiers especially non-contractual suppliers is one of the biggest hurdles.
French operators must submit a digital Due Diligence Statement (DDS) for each shipment.
Challenges:
Companies require robust IT systems and high data governance standards.
EUDR mandates a formal risk assessment considering:
For medium- or high-risk results, mitigation actions are mandatory.
French tyre companies must invest in:
These steps significantly increase operational cost and complexity.
Rubber often undergoes multiple transformations RSS sheets, TSR, latex concentrate, compounds, and finally tyres.
Each transformation step must maintain unbroken traceability.
Challenges include:
Incorrect tracking at any stage jeopardizes compliance.
EUDR compliance brings major financial and staffing pressures, including:
For SMEs importing tyres, these costs can be disproportionately high.
Some suppliers especially those in high-deforestation areas may fail to meet EUDR standards.
This can lead to:
French manufacturers may need to redesign procurement portfolios or expand to new sourcing regions.
French customs will require DDS verification before releasing tyres or rubber goods into the EU market.
Challenges include:
Non-compliance directly impacts inventory flow and customer delivery timelines.
EUDR represents one of the most demanding regulatory shifts ever placed on rubber and tyre supply chains. For French tyre companies, the challenges span traceability, legality, digital data governance, supplier management, and operational restructuring. Early investment in digital traceability systems, supplier alignment, and risk mitigation frameworks is essential to avoid disruption and maintain access to the EU market.
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires every shipment of natural rubber and tyre-derived products entering or circulating within the EU to be deforestation-free, legally sourced, and fully traceable to its plantation of origin. For France’s tyre manufacturers, importers, distributors, and automotive OEM suppliers key players in Europe’s transport and mobility ecosystem manual EUDR compliance is no longer viable. The TraceX digital platform delivers a smart, end-to-end solution that automates, secures, and simplifies the entire Due Diligence Statement (DDS) workflow for rubber and tyre supply chains.
TraceX digitally generates and submits EUDR-compliant DDS forms for every batch of natural rubber, compound, tyre component, or finished tyre product entering France. Integrated with the EU’s central reporting system, the platform captures verified geolocation data, supplier declarations, land-legality documents, and risk assessments. This eliminates manual errors and accelerates approvals helping French tyre companies maintain seamless movement of products across EU markets.
Every transaction from plantation to port to factory is recorded on a blockchain-secured ledger, linking each tyre or rubber batch to its validated plantation polygons. This ensures tamper-proof proof-of-origin, helping French manufacturers demonstrate deforestation-free sourcing to auditors, OEM partners, regulators, and sustainability stakeholders.
Using mobile-enabled onboarding tools, plantations, cooperatives, processors, and traders can register digitally and upload legality documents while capturing GPS polygon coordinates directly from the field. This enables inclusion of thousands of smallholders in high-risk regions like Southeast Asia and West Africa—giving French importers transparent, real-time insight into their entire upstream network.
TraceX uses AI and satellite monitoring to evaluate risk across sourcing landscapes, highlighting deforestation alerts, legality gaps, and supplier performance scores. French tyre manufacturers and importers can proactively mitigate risks, prioritize compliant suppliers, and prepare for audits with complete, data-driven documentation ahead of the 2025 deadline.
A leading French tyre manufacturer sourcing rubber from Thailand and Côte d’Ivoire uses TraceX to onboard cooperatives, verify plantation polygons, and automatically generate DDS reports for every EU-bound shipment. Within weeks, the company achieves full supply-chain visibility, reduces manual compliance workload by 60%, and secures EUDR readiness long before regulatory enforcement begins.
By unifying blockchain traceability, AI-driven risk intelligence, and digital supplier onboarding, TraceX transforms EUDR compliance from a regulatory burden into a competitive advantage. French tyre companies gain operational efficiency, audit-proof documentation, and sustainability leadership ensuring their supply chains remain deforestation-free, transparent, and future-ready.
France is one of Europe’s largest tyre markets, and French manufacturers supply tyres across the EU, Middle East, and Africa. Under EUDR, any tyre or rubber-derived product lacking a valid DDS can be blocked at EU customs.
This directly impacts:
Non-compliance could halt shipments at ports like Le Havre, Marseille, or Dunkerque causing costly delays, penalties, and cancelled contracts.
French tyre makers support major sectors including:
Interruptions in tyre supply affect the entire mobility chain. Compliance ensures stable input flows, especially for natural rubber (HS 4001), a critical strategic raw material for safety-critical components.
France is a global leader in sustainability policy. EUDR compliance reinforces:
Tyre companies demonstrating deforestation-free sourcing gain stronger credibility with regulators, investors, and climate-focused consumers.
EUDR is the first of several upcoming regulations targeting deforestation and Scope 3 emissions. Early compliance helps French tyre companies prepare for:
Companies that adapt now build long-term compliance efficiency and avoid future restructuring shocks.
Non-compliance exposes French tyre importers and manufacturers to:
EUDR’s strict “negligible risk” standard means tyre companies must demonstrate verifiable, defensible due diligence not just paper declarations.
Rubber sourcing historically faces challenges such as:
French companies adopting EUDR-aligned systems help:
This strengthens the long-term resilience of natural rubber supply.
EUDR-compliant tyre companies can highlight:
This meets growing procurement requirements from:
Compliance becomes a competitive differentiator, not just a regulatory burden.
EUDR accelerates digital transformation across the French tyre sector through:
This digital shift improves operational efficiency, reduces fraud, and provides real-time visibility into global sourcing networks.
EUDR matters for the French tyre sector because it safeguards market access, stabilizes supply chains, enhances sustainability leadership, and aligns France with global environmental goals. Compliance is not just about avoiding penalties it’s about future-proofing the tyre industry, strengthening competitiveness, and ensuring that France remains a leader in Europe’s mobility, automotive, and industrial ecosystems.
EUDR DDS for Tyres Supply Chain in France is critical for safeguarding market access, ensuring deforestation-free sourcing, and maintaining the integrity of France’s automotive and mobility industries. By adopting digital traceability, plantation-level geolocation, and robust due-diligence workflows, French tyre manufacturers and importers can meet compliance requirements with confidence. The DDS framework not only mitigates legal and operational risks but also enhances transparency, strengthens OEM partnerships, and positions France as a sustainability leader in Europe’s tyre sector.
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The EUDR is an EU-wide regulation designed to prevent deforestation and forest degradation caused by the production of key commodities, including natural rubber, a primary material in tyres. It requires tyre manufacturers, importers, and traders to ensure that all rubber used in production is deforestation-free, legally produced, and traceable to its source.
A DDS is an official declaration submitted by tyre manufacturers or importers confirming that the natural rubber used in their products complies with EUDR requirements. It must include geolocation data of plantations, legality documentation, and a comprehensive risk assessment to verify that no deforestation has occurred after December 31, 2020.
All French tyre manufacturers, importers, traders, and distributors handling tyres or tyre-derived products containing natural rubber must comply. This includes both large automotive OEM suppliers and smaller aftermarket businesses placing products on the EU market.
French tyre manufacturers face challenges such as tracking rubber back to plantations, verifying deforestation-free claims, collecting GPS coordinates from smallholders, and managing complex, multi-tier supply chains. Manual DDS preparation across such fragmented networks is time-consuming and error-prone.
TraceX streamlines the compliance process by digitizing supplier onboarding, verifying farm-level geolocation data, integrating satellite monitoring for deforestation risk, and automatically generating EUDR-compliant DDS reports. It ensures faster submissions, fewer manual errors, and full audit readiness.
Absolutely. TraceX is designed to support both large-scale manufacturers and smallholder networks. Through mobile-enabled tools, smallholders can register plantations, upload compliance data, and capture GPS coordinates making them active participants in a transparent, traceable tyre supply chain.
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