{"id":61803,"date":"2011-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/earthquake-could-mean-major-shortage-of-some-japanese-cars-in-u-s\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T00:00:00","slug":"earthquake-could-mean-major-shortage-of-some-japanese-cars-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/03\/earthquake-could-mean-major-shortage-of-some-japanese-cars-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake could mean major shortage of some Japanese cars in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t溏心vlog免费B站 expert says electronic chip exports could also be hindered<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 16, 2011 \u2013 American consumers thinking about buying a car made by Toyota, Nissan or Honda might want to make their decisions quickly.<\/p>\n


\nThat\u2019s because work at Toyota, Nissan, Honda and other auto plants in Japan has been interrupted following the historic earthquake, resulting in a loss of 10,000 vehicles per day for Toyota alone. Douglas N. Hales, associate professor of supply chain management at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Business Administration, said such interruptions will slow production of some models in the United States and around the world.<\/p>\n


\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 professor is in Le Havre, France doing research at its port until next week. Shortly after the earthquake, he switched his focus to examining the effects of the Japanese earthquake on French businesses.<\/p>\n


\nHales said that even more critical to the companies\u2019 plants in the U.S. would be the loss of some key components that are only made in Japan, which could slow production here.<\/p>\n


\nFor the short term, Japanese auto manufacturers have enough inventory in the United States, Hales said, adding that \u201cprecisely how much Toyota stock is

\nheld in the U.S. is a trade secret, but it is estimated at 10 to 20 days for key parts.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nOne of the biggest concerns for Japanese businesses now is electric power because the emphasis is on providing power to individual homes.<\/p>\n


\nIf it has to, Toyota can shift its supply chain to support production at any of its plants around the world in about 90 days. \u201cThe company is among the best in the world at this,\u201d Hales said.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cAlso, high-tech chips for computer memory and cell phone technology that are sole-sourced in Japan could run short, which will stop U.S. plants as well,\u201d Hales said. \u201cAgain, how much stock American plants have on the shelves is not publicly shared.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cOn a more strategic note, Japan has just fallen to third place as the world’s largest economy, now following China,\u201d Hales said. \u201cMy best estimate places the Japanese Gross Domestic Product loss, through its supply chain, of this earthquake to be about 7 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHales said Japanese restaurants in the U.S. that buy products from Japan will begin to run out of those ingredients in 15 to 20 days. Because there is a serious food shortage in the affected areas, Japan has virtually stopped all food exports for now, he said.<\/p>\n


\nHales said the French are worried about the quake\u2019s effects because the country exports more to Japan than it imports. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

溏心vlog免费B站 expert says electronic chip exports could also be hindered KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 16, 2011 \u2013 American consumers thinking about buying a car made by Toyota, Nissan or Honda might want to make their decisions quickly. That\u2019s because work at Toyota, Nissan, Honda and other auto plants in Japan has been interrupted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}