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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Details) (USD $) | 12 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2011 years acquisitions securities days segments VIEs | Jun. 30, 2010 | Jun. 30, 2009
Principles of Consolidation |  |  |
Difference in financial statement date of certain subsidiaries and affiliates included in Company's results (in days) | 93 |  |
Reporting period lag eliminated in the reporting of one consolidated subsidiary | one-month lag |  |
Use of Estimates |  |  |
Effect of change in accounting estimate on after-tax earnings | $ 83,000,000 |  |
Effect of change in accounting estimate on diluted earnings per share (in dollars per share) | $ 0.13 |  |
Receivables |  |  |
Allowance for estimated uncollectible trade accounts receivable | 100,000,000 | 97,000,000 |
Trade accounts receivable due from unconsolidated affiliates | 367,000,000 | 304,000,000 |
Property, Plant, and Equipment |  |  |
Minimum asset lives of building (in years) | 10 |  |
Maximum asset lives of building (in years) | 40 |  |
Minimum asset lives of machinery and equipment (in years) | 3 |  |
Maximum asset lives of machinery and equipment (in years) | 30 |  |
Capitalized interest on major construction projects | 7,000,000 | 75,000,000 | 95,000,000
Goodwill and other intangible assets |  |  |
Goodwill impairment charge |  |  | 6,000,000
Asset Abandonments and Write-Downs |  |  |
Asset abandonments and write-downs | 2,000,000 | 9,000,000 | 13,000,000
Net Sales |  |  |
Net sales to unconsolidated affiliates | 7,100,000,000 | 7,100,000,000 | 6,500,000,000
Research and Development |  |  |
Research and development expenses, net of expenditures subsequently reimbursed by government grants | 60,000,000 | 56,000,000 | 50,000,000
New Accounting Standards |  |  |
Number of VIE deconsolidated (in VIEs) | 1 |  |
Global pre-finance program |  |  |
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable |  |  |
Financing receivable outstanding | 220,000,000 |  |
Hickory Point Bank and Trust |  |  |
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable |  |  |
Financing receivable outstanding | $ 290,000,000 |  |
Period of delinquency after which accrual of interest is discontinued, in days | 90 |  |

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