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Retirement Plans (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2017
Retirement Plan Tables [Abstract] |
Schedule of Retirement Plan Costs | Our retirement plans costs for the three-month periods ended August 31 were as follows (in millions):
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Defined benefit pension plans |  | $ | 37 |  |  | $ | 58 |
Defined contribution plans |  |  | 127 |  |  |  | 119 |
Postretirement healthcare plans |  |  | 19 |  |  |  | 19 |
|  | $ | 183 |  |  | $ | 196 |
Schedule of Net Periodic Benefit Cost | Net periodic benefit cost of the pension and postretirement healthcare plans for the three-month periods ended August 31 included the following components (in millions):
|  | U.S. Pension Plans |  |  | International Pension Plans |  |  | Postretirement Healthcare Plans |
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Service cost |  | $ | 170 |  |  | $ | 160 |  |  | $ | 23 |  |  | $ | 20 |  |  | $ | 9 |  |  | $ | 9 |
Interest cost |  |  | 279 |  |  |  | 282 |  |  |  | 12 |  |  |  | 11 |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  | 10 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (406 | ) |  |  | (375 | ) |  |  | (11 | ) |  |  | (11 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Amortization of prior service credit and other |  |  | (30 | ) |  |  | (30 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
|  | $ | 13 |  |  | $ | 37 |  |  | $ | 24 |  |  | $ | 21 |  |  | $ | 19 |  |  | $ | 19 |
Schedule of Tax Qualified Pension Plans Contributions | Contributions to our tax-qualified U.S. domestic pension plans (“U.S. Pension Plans”) for the three-month periods ended August 31 were as follows (in millions):
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Required |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |
Voluntary |  |  | 250 |  |  |  | 250 |
|  | $ | 250 |  |  | $ | 250 |

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