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Toyota net profit drops 18% through December due to rising costs

Full-year forecast remains unchanged for Japanese automaker

Toyota faces continues to face chip shortages and high material costs. (Photo by Yuki Nakao)

TOKYO -- Toyota Motor on Thursday said net profit for the April-December period in the current fiscal year ending in March was 1.89 trillion yen ($14.4 billion), down 18% from the previous year, as it struggled to improve operations amid continuing chip shortages and high material costs.

The world's top-selling automaker kept its full-year net profit outlook unchanged at 2.36 trillion yen, down 17.2% from the previous year, but said it expected the effects of material cost increases to ease by 50 billion yen.

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