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Financing Receivables (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2014
Receivables [Abstract] |
Financing Receivables Table | The following table sets forth the breakdown of financing receivables by country as of the periods indicated:
|  | June 30, 2014 |  | December 31, 2013
|  | (in millions)
Argentina(1) |  | $ | 138 |  |  | $ | 164 |
Dominican Republic |  | 1 |  |  | 2 |
Brazil |  | 14 |  |  | 18 |
Total long-term financing receivables |  | $ | 153 |  |  | $ | 184 |
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(1) | Total receivables with the Argentine government were $243 million and $286 million, respectively, as of June 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013. The amounts presented in the table above exclude noncurrent receivables of $105 million and $122 million, respectively, as of June 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, which have not been converted into financing receivables and do not have contractual maturities of greater than one year. Of the $105 million, approximately $82 million is expected to be contributed to a FONINVEMEM Agreement and approximately $23 million is expected to be contributed to a trust to be set up by the Argentine government as required by Resolution 95. Also, excludes the foreign currency-related embedded derivative assets associated with the financing receivables which had a fair value of $111 million and $97 million, respectively, as of June 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013.

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