Second quarter profits at Japanese carmaker Toyota have fallen by 18.5% to 80.4bn yen¹ (£642m; $1.03bn) due to supply problems caused by the recent floods in Thailand.

因泰国近期洪灾导致零部件供应问题，日本汽车商丰田第二季度利润804亿日元，下降18.5%。

The company has withdrawn² its profit and vehicles sales forecasts due to uncertainty³ over the flood impact.

A Toyota spokeswoman said lost output from the Thai floods from October would be about 150,000 vehicles.

They also said the strong yen was making its exports less competitive.

Disruption to the supply of parts caused by the floods have continued to effect production.

The company said it would halt operations in Thailand and reduce output in the US, Canada, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Pakistan.

Supply problems caused by the floods will not be over this year, Yuuki Sakurai, chief executive of Fukoku Capital Management in Tokyo told the BBC.

"Floods sustain for quite a long time... recovery start from maybe the next year [2012]," he said.

These cutbacks have come at a time when Toyota was starting to ramp⁴ up（斜升） global production to make up for lost output after the earthquake and Tsunami⁵ in Japan in March.

However, Toyota Vice⁶ President Satoshi Ozawa said that although sales in Japan and the US had fallen due to these natural disasters, demand from emerging economies had made up some of the shortfall:

"In Asia, despite a negative impact from the earthquake, we increased vehicle sales above the same period last fiscal⁷ year due to expanding sales in India, Indonesia and Thailand," he said.