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FINANCIAL ASSETS (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Financial Instruments [Abstract] |
Disclosure of financial assets |
US$ MILLIONS |  | 2020 |  | 2019
Current: |  |  |  |
Marketable securities |  | $ | 563 |  |  | $ | 142 |
Foreign currency forward contracts |  | 34 |  |  | 112 |
Cross currency interest rate swaps |  | 22 |  |  | 92 |
Loans and receivables |  | 68 |  |  | 61 |
Other |  | 11 |  |  | 25 |
Total current |  | $ | 698 |  |  | $ | 432 |
Non-current: |  |  |  |
Marketable securities |  | $ | 97 |  |  | $ | 71 |
Foreign currency forward contracts |  | 81 |  |  | 29 |
Cross currency interest rate swaps |  | 262 |  |  | 542 |
Loans and receivables |  | 259 |  |  | 85 |
Other |  | 10 |  |  | 36 |
Total non-current |  | $ | 709 |  |  | $ | 763 |

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