Be adventuresome and try some different brand tires. I bought a brand new recumbent trike and it came with Schwalbe tires. The rear 700C X23 Schwalbe Durano $65 tire lasted 300 miles before it suffered a sidewall failure. I could have asked for a replacement under warranty and would have gotten one free but picked a fairly inexpensive road bike tire by Kenda to use until I could decide what tire to switch to. It turned out the Kenda tire was great for my purposes - no sidewall failure, tread lasted 3,000 miles, and I had few punctures in those miles. I'm still using the same tire today and will continue to replace it with the same one when the current one wears out. I could buy three of it for what one Schwalbe Durano tire costs. Why do you care where the tire was made? If the German made Schwalbe tire was three times as good as the Taiwanese made Kenda I'd agree but it certainly isn't.