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Other Expenses, Net
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
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Other Expenses, Net
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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.