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Toyota Warned that operating profits will drop this exercise by 21% due to the repercussions of the Donald Trump trade war, increasing the pressure on Japan to conclude an agreement on prices with the United States.
For her year ending in March 2026, Toyota said she expected an operating profit of 3.8 TN ¥ (26 billion dollars) against $ 4.8 TN in the year has just ended. Forecasts include an American pricing impact of 180 billion yen for the months of April and May.
The American president recently offered relief to car manufacturers to soften the impact of his 25% prices on imports of cars and parts made abroad. Toyota and other Japanese manufacturers export some of the vehicles they sell to the United States from Japan.
The evolutionary nature of Trump's prices has launched the world cars in troubles, with Mercedes-Benz, Volvo Cars and Ford taking their advice for this year, while General Motors warned a blow up to 5 billion dollars of the samples.
In the fourth quarter, Toyota’s operating profit was almost stable in annual sliding to 1.2 TN ¥ while income increased by 12% to 12.3 TN.
While Toyota is struggling with tariff effects, the largest company in Japan also plans a decision of $ 42 billion to take a private key subsidiary.
Akio Toyoda, grandson of the founder of Toyota, is Considering investing your personal money To direct a takeover of Toyota Industries, which manufactures industrial equipment and vehicles, according to people close to the discussions.
Toyota Motors, which has a complex series of crossed supports with its subsidiaries, also plans to invest, say the same people, in what would be one of the greatest takeovers in the world.
The movement, which was revealed last montharoused speculation that other major industrial groups accelerate discussions on potential acquisitions or redemptions of subsidiaries listed.
Toyota Industries' shares have increased sharply on news and are up 36.5% this year. Toyota Motors is slightly broken down during the same period.
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