Toyota April global sales up 10% on year ahead of U.S. tariff impact

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday that its global sales rose 10 percent from a year earlier to a record 876,864 vehicles for the month of April, as demand grew ahead of the negative impact of higher U.S. tariffs on imported cars.The world's largest automaker by volume said its global production increased 7.8 percent to 814,787 vehicles last month, also an all-time high for April. U.S. President Donald Trump imposed an additional 25 percent tariff on cars produced outside the United States on April 3.The automaker has said it will not pass on the cost of the tariff to consumers in the United …READ FULL ARTICLE