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D3 Assets pledged as collateral (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Disclosure Assets Pledged As Collateral [Abstract] |
Summary of Assets Pledged as Collateral |
Assets pledged as collateral |  |  |  |
|  | 2020 |  | 2019
Chattel mortgages 1) |  | 6,332 |  | 5,340
Bank deposits |  | 476 |  | 561
Total |  | 6,808 |  | 5,901
1) | See also note G1 “Post-employment benefits.”

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