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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-18-039523
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20180612

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			OWENS ILLINOIS INC /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000812074
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	GLASS CONTAINERS [3221]
		IRS NUMBER:				222781933
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE MICHAEL OWENS WAY
		CITY:			PERRYSBURG
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			43551-2999
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5673365000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE MICHAEL OWENS WAY
		CITY:			PERRYSBURG
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			43551-2999

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	OWENS-ILLINOIS INC /DE/
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20100601

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	OWENS ILLINOIS INC /DE/
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	OWENS ILLINOIS HOLDINGS CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19870512

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			OWENS-ILLINOIS GROUP INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000812233
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	GLASS CONTAINERS [3221]
		IRS NUMBER:				341559348
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O OWENS-ILLINOIS INC
		STREET 2:		ONE MICHAEL OWENS WAY
		CITY:			PERRYSBURG
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			43551-2999
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5673365000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O OWENS-ILLINOIS INC
		STREET 2:		ONE MICHAEL OWENS WAY
		CITY:			PERRYSBURG
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			43551-2999

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	OWENS ILLINOIS GROUP INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Owens-Illinois,&nbsp;Inc.<br>   One Michael Owens Way<br>    </font>Perrysburg, OH 43551-2999<br>   +1 567 336 5000 tel<br>   +1 567 336 8262 fax<br>   www.o-i.com</p>    </td>   </tr>  </table>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">VIA EDGAR TRANSMISSION</font></u></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">John Cash</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Accounting Branch Chief</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">100 F Street, N.E.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Re:</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>Owens-Illinois,&nbsp;Inc.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:1.0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Form&nbsp;10-K for the Year Ended December&nbsp;31, 2017</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:1.0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Filed February&nbsp;14, 2018</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:1.0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Form&nbsp;10-Q for the Quarter Ended March&nbsp;31, 2018</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Filed April&nbsp;24, 2018</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:1.0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">File No.&nbsp;1-9576</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Owens-Illinois Group,&nbsp;Inc.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:1.0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Form&nbsp;10-K for the Year Ended December&nbsp;31, 2017</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:1.0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Filed February&nbsp;14, 2018</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:1.0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Form&nbsp;10-Q for the Quarter Ended March&nbsp;31, 2018</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Filed April&nbsp;24, 2018</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:1.0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">File No.&nbsp;33-13061-01</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear Mr.&nbsp;Cash:</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">This letter is in response to your letter dated May&nbsp;29, 2018, with respect to the above-referenced Annual Reports on Form&nbsp;10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form&nbsp;10-Q and the Company&#146;s response on May&nbsp;17, 2018, to the staff&#146;s letter dated May&nbsp;3, 2018.&#160; The staff&#146;s comments are set forth below in bold, followed by the Company&#146;s response to each comment.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Please note that where referenced, the &#147;Company&#148; refers to Owens-Illinois,&nbsp;Inc.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Owens-Illinois,&nbsp;Inc.</font></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Form&nbsp;10-K for the Year Ended December&nbsp;31, 2017</font></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">General</font></u></b></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">1.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b>You state on page&nbsp;1 of the 10-K that your largest customers include Coca-Cola. In a publicly available letter to the Commission dated June&nbsp;3, 2015 Coca-Cola states that it has bottlers in Sudan and Syria through which its products are sold in Sudan and Syria. More recently,</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Coca-Cola states on page&nbsp;16 of its 10-K filed February&nbsp;23, 2018 that changes in &#147;U.S. trade sanctions against countries designated by the U.S. government as state sponsors of terrorism&#133;could make it impossible for [Coca-Cola] to continue to make sales to bottlers in such countries.&#148; North Korea, Sudan and Syria are designated by the Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism, and are subject to U.S. economic sanctions and/or export controls.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Please describe to us the nature and extent of any past, current, and anticipated contacts with North Korea, Sudan and Syria, whether through subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, partners, customers, joint ventures or other direct or indirect arrangements.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Response:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Company has no subsidiaries, joint ventures, assets, liabilities or operations in North Korea, Sudan or Syria.&#160; The Company is not aware of any direct or indirect contacts with North Korea or Syria, whether through subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, partners, customers, joint ventures or other direct or indirect arrangements.&#160; With respect to Sudan, between April&nbsp;2014 and November&nbsp;2016, a Colombian subsidiary of the Company sold empty glass tableware products to a customer in Dubai, UAE, which instructed the Colombian subsidiary to deliver the goods to Sudan.&#160; The revenue from these sales was approximately $74,000 compared to the Company&#146;s aggregate net sales for the relevant fiscal years of approximately $19.64 billion.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Other than as described above, the Company is not aware of any past, current, or anticipated contacts with North Korea, Sudan and Syria, whether through subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, partners, customers, joint ventures or other direct or indirect arrangements.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Company understands and is committed to compliance with the export controls and economic sanctions regulations applicable to its international business operations.&#160; The Company&#146;s Code of Conduct requires its employees to comply with applicable international trade laws and regulations in the United States and other jurisdictions in which it does business.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Owens-Illinois,&nbsp;Inc. Form&nbsp;10-Q for the Quarter Ended March&nbsp;31, 2018</font></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations</font></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Capital Resources and Liquidity, page&nbsp;30</font></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Cash Flows, page&nbsp;31</font></u></b></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">2.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b>We note your response to prior comment 3, indicating that lower factoring resulted in receivables increasing at a higher rate than sales in 1Q18. It appears to us that your days sales outstanding, both as reported and adjusted for factored receivables, have increased in recent periods. Given this noted negative trend, we continue to believe you should: more fully address the underlying reasons for increases in receivables, including the impact of factored receivables; consider presenting and discussing financial measures, such as days sales outstanding; and address the standard payment terms for your receivables.</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Response:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In response to the Staff&#146;s comment, the Company has further reviewed its reported trade receivables as of the end of the first quarter of 2018.&nbsp; The global nature of the Company&#146;s operations leads to differing payment term practices and this can lead to fluctuations in the Company&#146;s trade receivables balances at any point in time.&nbsp; Also, as disclosed in MD&amp;A in the</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Company&#146;s Quarterly Report on Form&nbsp;10-Q for the quarterly period ended March&nbsp;31, 2018, the Company experienced a strong increase in shipments in Brazil, while shipments in the U.S. declined largely due to ongoing trends in megabeer.&nbsp; This change in the Company&#146;s sales mix, and other sales mix changes, have also impacted its receivables balance as longer payment terms are more common outside the U.S. and in non-megabeer end uses.&nbsp; The net impact of the global nature of the Company&#146;s business and the mix of regional sales have resulted in the Company&#146;s trade receivables increasing at a higher rate than sales, negatively impacting the Company&#146;s operating cash flows in the first three months of 2018 compared to the same period in 2017.&nbsp; In future filings, the Company will continue to monitor such trends as noted above and will include them in the Company&#146;s liquidity disclosures if they remain significant.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Additionally, the Company has considered including a discussion of financial measures, such as days sales outstanding, and significant changes in payment terms, and will continue to monitor these items to evaluate whether their inclusion would be beneficial should these items indicate any significant changes in the quality of the related receivables, or warrant any disclosure in the Company&#146;s discussion of changes in working capital.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Owens-Illinois Group,&nbsp;Inc.</font></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Form&nbsp;10-K for the Year Ended December&nbsp;31, 2017</font></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Form&nbsp;10-Q for the Quarter Ended March&nbsp;31, 2018</font></u></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">3. Please also address the above comments in your filings for Owens-Illinois Group,&nbsp;Inc. as appropriate.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Response:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Company will address the above comments in its future filings for Owens-Illinois Group,&nbsp;Inc. as appropriate.</font></p>
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