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Divestitures and Other Transactions - Performance Coatings (Summarized Financial Info) (Details) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014 | Dec. 31, 2013 | Dec. 31, 2012
Income Statement Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Income from discontinued operations after income taxes | $ 15 us-gaap_IncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationsNetOfTaxAttributableToReportingEntity |  | $ 1,999 us-gaap_IncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationsNetOfTaxAttributableToReportingEntity | $ 308 us-gaap_IncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationsNetOfTaxAttributableToReportingEntity |
Performance Coatings [Member] | Discontinued Operations [Member] |  |  |  |  |
Income Statement Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Net sales | 0 us-gaap_DisposalGroupIncludingDiscontinuedOperationRevenue / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember |  | 331 us-gaap_DisposalGroupIncludingDiscontinuedOperationRevenue / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember | 4,218 us-gaap_DisposalGroupIncludingDiscontinuedOperationRevenue / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember |
Income before income taxes | 0 us-gaap_DiscontinuedOperationIncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationBeforeIncomeTax / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember |  | 2,717 us-gaap_DiscontinuedOperationIncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationBeforeIncomeTax / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember | 551 us-gaap_DiscontinuedOperationIncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationBeforeIncomeTax / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember |
(Benefit from) provision for income taxes | (15)us-gaap_DiscontinuedOperationTaxEffectOfIncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationDuringPhaseOutPeriod / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember | [1] | 718 us-gaap_DiscontinuedOperationTaxEffectOfIncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationDuringPhaseOutPeriod / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember | 243 us-gaap_DiscontinuedOperationTaxEffectOfIncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationDuringPhaseOutPeriod / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember | [1]
Income from discontinued operations after income taxes | 15 us-gaap_IncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationsNetOfTaxAttributableToReportingEntity / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember |  | 1,999 us-gaap_IncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationsNetOfTaxAttributableToReportingEntity / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember | 308 us-gaap_IncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationsNetOfTaxAttributableToReportingEntity / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember |
Tax expense on earnings of permanently invested foreign subsidiaries |  |  | $ 70 dd_TaxExpenseOnEarningsOfPermanentlyInvestedForeignSubsidiaries / dd_DivestituresandOtherTransactionsAxis = dd_PerformanceCoatingsMember / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember |  |
[1] | The year ended December 31, 2014 includes a tax benefit of $(15) related to a change in estimate of income taxes resulting from the filing of various tax returns impacted by the sale of Performance Coatings. The year ended December 31, 2012 includes expense of $70 to accrue taxes associated with earnings of certain Performance Coatings subsidiaries that were previously considered permanently reinvested as these entities have been reclassified as held for sale.

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