Toyota’s production and exports are recovering well in the first half of this year, compared to the impact of the disruption in 2020, but Covid is still hampering production in Japan because of supplier shutdowns in South-East Asia
Toyota has reported exports from Japan in the first half of this year up almost 22% to around 970,000 compared to the same period in 2020 (see table). Exports from Japan in the first half of last year were down almost 30% on the same period in 2019. Worldwide production for the first six months of 2019 stood at 5.4m, while Toyota exported 1.1m vehicles from Japan over that period indicating that sales and production are recovering from the reductions caused by last year’s disruption.
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