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Other Expenses, Net | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
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Other Expenses, Net |
7) | OTHER EXPENSES, NET
The detail of the line item “Other expenses, net” in 2020, 2019 and 2018 was as follows:
|  |  |  |  | 2020 |  |  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |
Impairment losses 1 |  | $ |  |  |  |  | (1,520 | ) |  |  | (64 | ) |  |  | (62 | )
Results from the sale of assets and others, net 2 |  |  |  |  |  |  | (127 | ) |  |  | (230 | ) |  |  | (149 | )
Restructuring costs 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  | (81 | ) |  |  | (48 | ) |  |  | (72 | )
Incremental costs and expenses related to the COVID-19 Pandemic (note 2) |  |  |  |  |  |  | (48 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Remeasurement of pension liabilities 4 |  |  |  |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | (8 | )
Charitable contributions |  |  |  |  |  |  | (3 | ) |  |  | (5 | ) |  |  | (5 | )
|  | $ |  |  |  |  | (1,779 | ) |  |  | (347 | ) |  |  | (296 | )
1 | In 2020, include impairment losses of goodwill and other intangible assets of $1,020 and $194, respectively, related to CEMEX’s assets and its Reporting Segment in the United States (notes 16.1 and 16.2), as well as impairment losses of fixed assets of $306, mainly related to assets in the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom (note 15.1). In 2019 and 2018, among others, includes impairment losses of fixed assets of $64 and $23, respectively, as well as in 2018 losses in the valuation of assets held for sale of $22 (notes 14.2, 15 and 16).
2 | In 2020, 2019 and 2018, includes $11, $55 and $56, respectively, in connection with property damages and natural disasters (note 25.1).
3 | Restructuring costs mainly refer to severance payments and the definite closing of operating sites.
4 | Refers to past services remeasurement of CEMEX’s defined benefit plan in the United Kingdom determined in 2018 considering the issuance of a gender parity law.

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