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Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss [Abstract] |
Schedule of changes in accumulated other comprehensive income [Table Text Block] | Changes in accumulated other comprehensive loss consists of the following:
| Post-Employment Benefits, Net of Tax |  | Hedge Instruments, Net of Tax |  | Translation Adjustments and Other, Net of Tax |  | Total
| (in millions)
Balance at December 31, 2012 | $ | (639 | ) |  | $ | (34 | ) |  | $ | (309 | ) |  | $ | (982 | )
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications, net of tax | 202 |  |  | (7 | ) |  | (8 | ) |  | 187 |
Reclassifications from accumulated other comprehensive loss to earnings(1) | (27 | ) |  | 15 |  |  | 2 |  |  | (10 | )
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax | 175 |  |  | 8 |  |  | (6 | ) |  | 177 |
Balance at December 31, 2013 | $ | (464 | ) |  | $ | (26 | ) |  | $ | (315 | ) |  | $ | (805 | )
(1) Refer to Note 13, "Pension, Other Post-employment Benefits and Employee Benefit Plans," and Note 8, "Financial Instruments," for additional information with respect to reclassifications from accumulated other comprehensive loss to earnings relating to post-employment benefits, net of tax and hedge instruments, net of tax, respectively. Such items do not represent reclassifications in their entirety.

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