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INVENTORIES | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Inventories [Abstract] |
INVENTORIES | INVENTORIES:
| December 31, 2017 |  |  | January 1, 2017 |
Raw materials and spare parts inventories | $ | 128,414 |  |  | $ | 119,155 |
Work in progress | 60,743 |  |  | 56,397 |
Finished goods | 756,581 |  |  | 779,324 |
| $ | 945,738 |  |  | $ | 954,876 |
The amount of inventories recognized as an expense and included in cost of sales was $1,884.8 million for fiscal 2017 (2016 - $1,810.3 million), which included an expense of $18.0 million (2016 - $11.3 million) related to the write-down of inventory to net realizable value.

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