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Inventories (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
Inventories |
Inventories by segment |
|  | December 31, |
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(US$ in millions) |  | 2011 |  | 2010 |
Agribusiness (1) |  | $ | 4,080 |  | $ | 5,137 |
Sugar and Bioenergy (2) |  |  | 465 |  |  | 359 |
Edible Oil Products (3) |  |  | 489 |  |  | 460 |
Milling Products (4) |  |  | 130 |  |  | 163 |
Fertilizer (4) |  |  | 569 |  |  | 516 |
Total |  | $ | 5,733 |  | $ | 6,635 |
(1) Includes readily marketable agricultural commodity inventories carried at fair value of $3,724 million and $4,540 million at December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. All other agribusiness segment inventories are carried at lower of cost or market. (2) Includes readily marketable sugar inventories of $139 million and $86 million at December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Of these sugar inventories, $83 million and $66 million are carried at fair value at December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, in Bunge's merchandising business. Sugar and ethanol inventories in Bunge's industrial production business are carried at lower of cost or market. (3) Edible oil products inventories are generally carried at lower of cost or market, with the exception of readily marketable inventories of bulk soybean oil which is carried at fair value in the aggregate amount of $212 million and $225 million at December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. (4) Milling products and fertilizer inventories are carried at lower of cost or market.

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