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Financing Receivables (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Financing Receivables Tables [Abstract] |
Long-term Financing Receivables Table |
|  |  | 2012 |  | 2011
|  |  | (in millions)
| Argentina(1) |  | $ | 196 |  | $ | 232
| Dominican Republic |  |  | 35 |  |  | 49
| Brazil |  |  | 8 |  |  | 14
| Total long-term financing receivables |  | $ | 239 |  | $ | 295

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