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Related parties
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde S.A.A. [Member]  
Disclosure of transactions between related parties [line items]  
Related parties

4.     Related parties

 

Accounts receivable from related parties and accounts payable to related parties are made up as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

December 31, 2019

    

December 31, 2018

 

 

US$(000)

 

US$(000)

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts receivable from related parties

 

 

 

 

Parent Company

 

 

 

 

FMC (a)

 

401,211

 

409,688

Other related parties

 

 

 

 

Sumitomo (b)

 

10,760

 

12,918

Climax Molybdenum Marketing Corporation (c)

 

5,022

 

10,038

Embedded derivatives

 

 

 

 

Embedded derivatives (d)

 

36,077

 

(19,293)

 

 

 

 

 

Total accounts receivable from related parties

 

453,070

 

413,351

 

 

 

 

 

Classification by measurement

 

 

 

 

Accounts receivables from related parties (not subject to provisional pricing)

 

121,995

 

67,050

Accounts receivables from related parties (subject to provisional pricing)

 

294,998

 

365,594

Embedded derivatives (d)

 

36,077

 

(19,293)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

453,070

 

413,351

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

December 31, 2019

    

December 31, 2018

 

 

US$(000)

 

US$(000)

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable to related parties

 

 

 

 

Parent Company

 

 

 

 

FMC (e)

 

10,441

 

8,860

Other related parties

 

 

 

 

Freeport-McMoRan Sales Company Inc.

 

3,086

 

3,192

Minera Freeport-McMoRan South America Ltda

 

561

 

521

PT Freeport Indonesia

 

 —

 

2,301

Total accounts payable to related parties

 

14,088

 

14,874

Less: accounts payable to related parties, long term

 

(10,074)

 

(8,860)

 

 

 

 

 

Total accounts payable, short term

 

4,014

 

6,014


(a)Accounts receivable from FMC mainly correspond to sales of copper concentrate and copper cathode. The Company has a long-term agreement with FMC through which it has committed to sell between 70% and 80% of its annual copper concentrate production through December 31, 2021. Terms of the contracts are reviewed annually.

(b)The Company has a long-term agreement with Sumitomo through which it has committed to sell 21% of its annual copper concentrates production through December 31, 2021. Terms of the contracts are reviewed annually.

(c)The Company has a long-term agreement with Climax Molybdenum Marketing Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of FMC) through which it has committed to sell 100% of its annual molybdenum concentrate production, at a price based on MWDO and under a delivery type known as CIF (cost, insurance and freight) through December 31, 2020.

(d)Reflects the embedded derivative adjustment associated with accounts receivable from related parties (See Note 2(d) and 22).

(e)Accounts payable to FMC is primarily related to stock option benefits (US$10.1 million as of December 31, 2019, and US$8.9 million as of December 31, 2018).

Short-term and long-term employee benefits are recognized as expenses during the period earned. Benefits received by key management personnel represent 0.42% of total revenues for the year 2019 (0.38% for the year 2018). For the years 2019,  2018 and 2017, Freeport had granted stock option and/or restricted stock unit benefits to certain key management personnel, the amounts of which are not significant at those dates. As of December 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company does not have any other long-term benefits.

Terms and transactions with related parties -

Transactions with related parties are made at normal market prices. Outstanding balances are unsecured, interest free and settlement occurs in cash. There have been no guarantees provided or received for any accounts receivables from related parties. For the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, the Company had not recorded any impairment of accounts receivable from related parties.