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Venezuela
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Foreign Currency [Abstract]  
Venezuela VENEZUELA
Due to the challenging economic conditions and political unrest in Venezuela, which have resulted in increasingly restrictive foreign exchange control regulations and reduced access to U.S. dollars through official currency exchange markets, during the year ended December 31, 2017, we concluded there was an other-than-temporary lack of exchangeability between the Venezuelan bolivar and the U.S. dollar. This lack of exchangeability restricted our Venezuelan subsidiary's ability to pay dividends or settle intercompany obligations, which severely limited our ability to realize the benefits from earnings of our Venezuelan operations and access the resulting liquidity provided by those earnings.
Based on this lack of exchangeability, the continued political unrest, the recent drop in demand for our business and the losses incurred, we concluded that we no longer met the accounting criteria of control in order to continue consolidating our Venezuelan operations and accounted for our investments in our Venezuelan subsidiary under the cost method of accounting. As a result of this change, we recorded a loss of $70.9 million on our consolidated statement of operations during the year ended December 31, 2017. This loss was comprised of the subsidiary's net assets for $30.0 million, counterparty intercompany receivables with our Venezuela subsidiary for $35.0 million and unrealized actuarial losses associated with pension plans in accumulated other comprehensive income of $5.9 million. The value of the cost investment and all previous intercompany balances were recorded at zero as of December 31, 2017 and remain as such as of December 31, 2018. Further, our consolidated balance sheet and statement of operations excludes the results of our Venezuelan operations. We will recognize income only to the extent that we are paid for inventory we sell or receive cash dividends from our Venezuelan legal entity.
Prior to deconsolidation, for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, our Venezuelan subsidiary's net sales represented $2.5 million and $50.8 million of our consolidated net sales, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, our Venezuelan subsidiary represented a loss of $2.8 million and $36.5 million of our consolidated income from operations, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 our Venezuelan subsidiary represented net losses of $5.8 million and $68.5 million of our consolidated net income, respectively.
During the year ended December 31, 2016, the Company recorded an impairment charge on operating assets of $57.9 million, comprised of a $49.3 million write-down to customer relationship intangibles and an $8.6 million write-down to the net book value of our property, plant and equipment. The impairment charge was recorded within income from operations on the consolidated statement of operations, with $30.6 million and $27.3 million allocated to our Performance Coatings and Transportation Coatings operating segments, respectively.
In addition, during the year ended December 31, 2016, we recorded non-operational impairment losses of $10.5 million, at our Venezuelan subsidiary to write down the carrying value of a real estate investment to its fair value. The method used to determine fair values for the assets included using Level 2 inputs in the form of a sale and purchase agreement for the certain manufacturing assets and observable market quotes from local real estate broker service firms for the Venezuela real estate investment.