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Japan's Toyodenso receives corrective recommendation for Subcontract Act violations

( December 24, 2025, 07:48 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Japanese automotive electronic-component maker Toyodenso received a corrective recommendation on Wednesday for violating the Subcontract Act. The Japan Fair Trade Commission said it found that the Tokyo-based company engaged in exploitative conduct toward its subcontractors. Specifically, Toyodenso unfairly returned products to 27 subcontractors, required 57 subcontractors to store 907 metal molds and tools without paying storage fees and forced 16 subcontractors to bear the costs of collecting those items. The JFTC instructed Toyodenso to reimburse the relevant storage and collection fees and to implement compliance measures to prevent a recurrence. The action marks a repeat violation, because the company received a similar corrective recommendation in 2019 for breaching the Subcontract Act, the regulator said.The statement, in Japanese, is attached....

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