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LOANS AND FINANCING (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
LOANS AND FINANCING |
Schedule of loans and financing |
|  | Annual charges (*) |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Working capital |  | 4.91% |  | 107,312 |  | 2,424,246
Financing of property, plant and equipment and others |  | 8.89% |  | 843,099 |  | 1,205,281
Ten/Thirty Year Bonds |  | 5.56% |  | 12,188,412 |  | 9,738,314
Total Loans and Financing |  |  |  | 13,138,823 |  | 13,367,841
Current |  |  |  | 1,544,211 |  | 1,822,183
Non-current |  |  |  | 11,594,612 |  | 11,545,658
Principal amount of loans and Financing |  |  |  | 12,958,565 |  | 13,178,457
Interest accrued of loans and Financing |  |  |  | 180,258 |  | 189,384
Total of Debts |  |  |  | 13,138,823 |  | 13,367,841
(*)Weighted average effective interest costs on December 31, 2019, which in a consolidated basis represent total of 5.73%.
Schedule of loans and financing by currency |
|  | 2019 |  | 2018
Brazilian Real (BRL) |  | 111,492 |  | 2,361,610
U.S. Dollar (USD) |  | 12,960,521 |  | 10,924,355
Other currencies |  | 66,810 |  | 81,876
|  | 13,138,823 |  | 13,367,841
Schedule of amortization of long term loans and financing |
|  | 2019 |  | 2018
2020 |  | — |  | 2,253,958
2021 |  | 1,221,361 |  | 1,199,045
2022 |  | 105,137 |  | 121,490
2023 |  | 1,243,774 |  | 1,209,109
2024 |  | 1,531,163 |  | 2,426,456
2025 and after |  | 7,493,177 |  | 4,335,600
|  | 11,594,612 |  | 11,545,658

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