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INVENTORIES (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
INVENTORIES |
Inventories by segment |
|  | September 30, |  | December 31, |
(US$ in millions) |  | 2013 |  | 2012 |
Agribusiness (1) |  | $ | 4,550 |  | $ | 5,240 |
Sugar and Bioenergy (2) |  | 511 |  | 488 |
Edible Oil Products (3) |  | 508 |  | 617 |
Milling Products (4) |  | 224 |  | 184 |
Fertilizer (4) (5) |  | 92 |  | 61 |
Total |  | $ | 5,886 |  | $ | 6,590 |
(1) Includes readily marketable agricultural commodity inventories at fair value of $4,305 million and $4,892 million at September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively. Of these amounts $3,330 million and $3,442 million can be attributable to merchandising activities at September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively. All other agribusiness segment inventories are carried at lower of cost or market. (2) Includes readily marketable sugar inventories of $170 million and $199 million at September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively. Of these, $114 million and $144 million, respectively, are carried at fair value, 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 $74 million and $176 million at September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively. (4) Milling products and fertilizer inventories are carried at lower of cost or market. (5) Fertilizer inventories exclude amounts classified as held for sale (see Note 4).

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