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Toyota Halts All Production in Japan

I think Japan's problems will affect us in many ways. Aside from vehicles, there are many products or large sub-assemblies of products produced in Japan.

Also Japan may migrate from Nuclear to fossil fuel, or at least replace the existing reactors they have with fossil fuel replacements. This may take time, and will also add to the cost of fossil fuels depending on what they pick.

I suspect everything from DVD players, smart phones to LCD's will either have shortages or price jumps due to the infrastructure impairments experienced by Japan.
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Also consider the Nintendo 3ds, that was supposed to be released soon. What impact will this have on it?

Same with animation studios. For some reason American animated programs are drawn in Asian studios. The voices are done, here, but the actual animation is done some where in Asia.
Hence American Dad, may not be all that American
But you also have some hollywood animated movies that may have been in the process, their production schedules will have to change.
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reply to Krisnatharok
As I said in the other thread, many Honda's and Toyota's that are for sale in the US are manufactured somewhere in North America. So while this will impact the automaker, it will only impact it based on vehicles that are produced in Japan.

Will the companies take a hit? Yes. Will it impact car sales globally? Doubtful.
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And as I replied in that same other thread, critical sub assemblies like the drive train are still sourced from Japan creating a bottleneck that will grind overseas production to a halt.

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Lugnut is correct, many sub assemblies for Toyota and other Japanese cars made in the U.S. come from Japan. With JIT, it is likely the U.S. plants will be idled at some point.

Japan will cease to export a lot of stuff for a while, as it must meet domestic consumption needs. It may also import refined oil as several of it's largest refineries are severely damaged. The U.S. may sell more food, and even provide some needed equipment into the near future.

While the balance of trade issue with Japan may mitigate for a short while, it will also cause higher prices and or shortages of stuff we thought wasn't limited (LCD and plasma sets come to mind as do DVD players).
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I'm thinking this is going to put the kibosh on Japanese auto manufacturing for the next fiscal year at the very least.

Suddenly Ford Motor and even GM are starting to look attractive to me. Lord knows they could barely compete on a level playing field, but when your opponents are walking around in full body casts and crutches it doesn't take a genius to see how to play the smart money

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You can't really infer anything meaningful from those figures except to assume that the Japanese producers probably get their foreign parts from Japan.

The American big three I do know get an awful lot of parts from Canadian subsidiaries.

Then I'd assume that perhaps 10% or so of domestic car parts these days come from China (everything else does)

But without seeing a specific breakdown of who's sourcing from whom I'd be leery to bet the farm on those numbers.

Also. bear in mind that Ford has partnerships with Mazda, GM with Toyota and Chrysler with Mitsubishi so some of that foreign parts breakdown sums up with imported finished units.

Actually my biggest worry right now is the possibility of my Honda Accord breaking down sometime in the next year and me waiting 6 months for a part to show up.

Well they count Canada as part of domestic parts content for some strange reason. So even GM, Ford, Chrysler are not getting alot of their parts from US/Canada.

Its hard to find real numbers beyond the "domestic parts content" which is USA/Canada parts.

With your Accord (75% domestic parts) you are better off than any GM or Ford in getting parts even with the crisis in Japan. Also its an accord, why are you so worried about it breaking down?
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What about Mexico? Do they count all three NAFTA members as domestic?

As for my Accord, it's 16 years old and still low miles and beautiful shape. Even so, every once in a while every couple of years or so something falls off and has to be replaced

16 years old? Toyota does not make parts for that anymore, all aftermarket or junk yards. Even if you bought them through a dealer they are buying from aftermarket unless they have a warehouse of old stock somewhere.

Everything I read only counts Canada and US as domestic. It does not count mexico.

Its part of the American Automobile Labeling Act (AALA) of 1992. It counts Canada and US as domestic.
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That article just talks about how Japan is going to make up for its power loss in the short term. I don't think they have decided about long term power generation.
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reply to pandora
Their NG tanks went up in flames as well. Their diesel generators were flooded. Lot of good them fossil fuels did.

Keywords the article you quoted "replace.. when.. if..."

I think the blame on the Nuclear Bogeyman is misplaced.
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