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INVENTORIES (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2012
INVENTORIES |
Inventories by segment |
|  | September 30, |  | December 31, |
(US$ in millions) |  | 2012 |  | 2011 |
Agribusiness (1) |  | $ | 6,090 |  | $ | 4,080 |
Sugar and bioenergy (2) |  | 508 |  | 465 |
Edible oil products (3) |  | 625 |  | 489 |
Milling products (4) |  | 210 |  | 130 |
Fertilizer (4) |  | 682 |  | 569 |
Total |  | $ | 8,115 |  | $ | 5,733 |
(1) | Includes readily marketable agricultural commodity inventories at fair value of $5,792 million and $3,724 million at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively. All other agribusiness segment inventories are carried at lower of cost or market.
(2) | Includes readily marketable sugar inventories of $164 million and $139 million at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively. Of these sugar inventories, $90 million and $83 million are carried at fair value at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively, in Bunge’s trading and 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 are carried at fair value in the aggregate amount of $193 million and $212 million at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively.
(4) | Milling products and fertilizer inventories are carried at lower of cost or market.

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