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Trade Payables (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
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Summary of Trade Payables |
|  | 12/31/2018 |  |  | 12/31/2017 |
Domestic suppliers |  |  | 2,079,010 |  |  |  | 1,973,668 |
Domestic suppliers—agreement (i) |  |  | 73,169 |  |  |  | — |
Foreign suppliers |  |  | 472,597 |  |  |  | 181,830 |
Foreign suppliers—agreement (i) |  |  | 106,901 |  |  |  | — |
|  |  | 2,731,677 |  |  |  | 2,155,498 |
(i) | Suppliers – agreement: some subsidiaries of the Company entered into an agreement with a financial institution, which consists of the anticipation of receipt of the trade payables by the supplier, in which the financial institution prepay a certain amount from the supplier, and receives on the maturity date the amount payable by the subsidiaries of the Company. The decision to join this transaction is solely and exclusively of the supplier. The agreement does not substantially change the main characteristics of the commercial conditions previously established between the subsidiaries of the Company and the suppliers. These transaction are presented in operating activities in the statements of cash flow.

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