A tire importer says it plans to comply with the government's mandate to recall all 450,000 potentially defective Chinese tires it sold to distributors, even if that means it will go out of business, according to USA Today.

"We will do the recall until we run out of money," said Lawrence Lavigne, attorney for New Jersey-based Foreign Tire Sales. "At that point, consumers are on their own."

At issue are tires manufactured by Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber, China's second-largest tire company, that are missing "gum strips," which hold the tire together. Without the gum strips, the treads can separate and cause drivers to lose control and possibly cause the vehicle to roll over. The tires are blamed in the deaths of two Pennsylvania men.