Federal Tires are a Tawanese brand, I first heard about them in the drift scene as they became very popular for drift cars for a minute except they get greasey and chunk, undeer intense spin. They positioned themselves as a motorsports tire company and also marketed to the Autocross and Time Attack scene.
They heavily spomsored people throwing tons of free tires at drivers in Drift ,Autocross and Time Attack. They got into D1 and Forumula Drift. This established them as a tire company as they pretty much came out of nowhere in 2004-5. Though seeing as he scene was heavily centered in the San Gabriel valley ifs not surprising as here are a lot of Tawanese immigrant guys who were getting into the aftermarket car parts scene and drifting.
Seibon,VIS,Mishimoto,Federal,NRG, are some of the more prominently known companies that came out of this and I actually dealt with some of the back in the day. This was all pre 2008-2009 as the great recession all but a lot of these guys out of business. i beleive VIS is no longer in fact.