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Financing Receivables (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Receivables [Abstract] |
Financing Receivables | The table below sets forth the breakdown of financing receivables by country as of the periods indicated:
|  | December 31,
|  | 2014 |  | 2013
|  | (in millions)
Argentina(1) |  | $ | 278 |  |  | $ | 164 |
Dominican Republic |  | — |  |  | 2 |
Brazil |  | 15 |  |  | 18 |
Total long-term financing receivables |  | $ | 293 |  |  | $ | 184 |
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(1) | As of December 31, 2014 all amounts had contractual maturities of greater than one year. As of December 31, 2013, total receivables with the Argentine government were $286 million, and the amount presented in the table above excluded noncurrent receivables of $122 million which had not yet been converted into financing receivables and did not have contractual maturities of greater than one year at the time.

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