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Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Provision for Income Taxes

Earnings / (losses) from continuing operations before income taxes and the provision for income taxes consisted of the following:

		For the Years Ended December 31,
		2015				2014				2013
		(in millions)
Earnings / (losses) from continuing operations before income taxes:
United States		$	43			$	(135	)		$	(799	)
Outside United States			7,841				2,689				3,191
Total		$	7,884			$	2,554			$	2,392
Provision for income taxes:
United States federal:
Current		$	(90	)		$	(125	)		$	(489	)
Deferred			136				28				103
			46				(97	)			(386	)
State and local:
Current			6				20				(35	)
Deferred			(3	)			11				22
			3				31				(13	)
Total United States			49				(66	)			(399	)
Outside United States:
Current			707				644				648
Deferred			(163	)			(225	)			(189	)
Total outside United States			544				419				459
Total provision for income taxes		$	593			$	353			$	60

Effective Income Tax Rate

The effective income tax rate on pre-tax earnings differed from the U.S. federal statutory rate for the following reasons:

		For the Years Ended December 31,
		2015				2014				2013
U.S. federal statutory rate			35.0%				35.0%				35.0%
Increase / (decrease) resulting from:
State and local income taxes, net of federal tax benefit excluding IRS audit impacts			(0.1)%				0.3%				(0.5)%
Foreign rate differences			(2.5)%				(14.5)%				(16.3)%
Reversal of other tax accruals no longer required			(1.4)%				(10.5)%				(9.6)%
Indemnification resolution			–				–				(4.7)%
Tax legislation			(0.5)%				–				(2.2)%
Gains on coffee business transactions and divestitures			(26.9)%				–				(2.1)%
Loss on deconsolidation of Venezuela			3.5%				–				–
Remeasurement of net monetary assets in Venezuela			–				1.7%				1.0%
Non-deductible expenses			0.3%				1.5%				1.1%
Other			0.1%				0.3%				0.8%
Effective tax rate			7.5%				13.8%				2.5%

Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities Temporary Differences

The tax effects of temporary differences that gave rise to deferred income tax assets and liabilities consisted of the following:

		As of December 31,
		2015				2014
		(in millions)
Deferred income tax assets:
Accrued postretirement and postemployment benefits		$	230			$	227
Accrued pension costs			414				588
Other employee benefits			265				272
Accrued expenses			343				410
Loss carryforwards			636				656
Other			352				431
Total deferred income tax assets			2,240				2,584
Valuation allowance			(303	)			(345	)
Net deferred income tax assets		$	1,937			$	2,239
Deferred income tax liabilities:
Intangible assets		$	(5,365	)		$	(5,843	)
Property, plant and equipment			(636	)			(784	)
Other			(409	)			(439	)
Total deferred income tax liabilities			(6,410	)			(7,066	)
Net deferred income tax liabilities		$	(4,473	)		$	(4,827	)

Changes in Unrecognized Tax Benefit

The changes in our unrecognized tax benefits were:

		For the Years Ended December 31,
		2015				2014				2013
						(in millions)
January 1		$	852			$	1,189			$	1,164
Increases from positions taken during prior periods			34				143				94
Decreases from positions taken during prior periods			(74	)			(247	)			(132	)
Increases from positions taken during the current period			84				147				131
Decreases relating to settlements with taxing authorities			(13	)			(203	)			(7	)
Reductions resulting from the lapse of the applicable statute of limitations			(41	)			(64	)			(55	)
Currency / other			(86	)			(113	)			(6	)
December 31		$	756			$	852			$	1,189

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Tabular disclosure of the components of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for each year presented including, but not limited to: current tax expense (benefit), deferred tax expense (benefit), investment tax credits, government grants, the benefits of operating loss carryforwards, tax expense that results from allocating certain tax benefits either directly to contributed capital or to reduce goodwill or other noncurrent intangible assets of an acquired entity, adjustments of a deferred tax liability or asset for enacted changes in tax laws or rates or a change in the tax status of the entity, and adjustments of the beginning-of-the-year balances of a valuation allowance because of a change in circumstances that causes a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax asset in future years.

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