From DCB editorialPresent May 8, 2025
Toyota Motor, the world’s largest car manufacturer, has predicted a strong profit by 20% for the financial year until March 2026. Behind this financial contraction is a confused network of the geopolitical brinkmanship and symbolizes the acute acute acute, which was imposed by the destabilization tariffs of the administration of Trump.
These taxes – brutally in their economic bluntness – have already withdrawn 180 billion yen in just months. But it is the falling US dollar, even a victim of irregular politics and tax responsibility, which is expected to cause the deepest wound and is estimated to be 745 billion yen from Toyota’s final result.
Chief Executive Koji Sato was not with clarity before the press in Tokyo, but with the vague resignation of a chaos. The company’s modest increase in profit by 0.3% quarterly corresponds to the deeper discomfort: a collapsed North American market, a smashed Chinese consumer base and the existential weight of a system that no longer rewards long -term investments or stability.
A profit increase of 18% in Japan – Toyota’s last bastion of consistent profits – only initiated a brief recovery of a broader narrative of decline. In the meantime, the financial markets, which always winced and fear, punished the Toyota stocks and sent them by 1.3%.
