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Employee Separation / Asset Related Charges, Net (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
2016 Restructuring Program [Member] |
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items] |
Schedule of Restructuring Program |
| Severance and Related Benefit Costs | Asset Related Charges | Other Non-Personnel Charges 1 | Total
Charges to income from continuing operations for the year ended December 31, 2015 | $ | 656 |  | $ | 109 |  | $ | 33 |  | $ | 798 |
Charges to accounts: |  |  |  |
Payments | (2 | ) | — |  | (1 | ) | (3 | )
Asset write-offs and adjustments | (6 | ) | (109 | ) | — |  | (115 | )
Balance at December 31, 2015 | $ | 648 |  | $ | — |  | $ | 32 |  | $ | 680 |
1. Other non-personnel charges consist of contractual obligation costs.
2014 Restructuring Program [Member] |
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items] |
Schedule of Restructuring Program |
| Severance and Related Benefit Costs | Asset Related Charges | Other Non-Personnel Charges 1 | Total 2
Charges to income from continuing operations for the year ended December 31, 2014 | $ | 301 |  | $ | 223 |  | $ | 17 |  | $ | 541 |
Charges to accounts: |  |  |  |
Payments | (43 | ) | — |  | (13 | ) | (56 | )
Net translation adjustment | (6 | ) | — |  | — |  | (6 | )
Asset write-offs and adjustments | — |  | (223 | ) | — |  | (223 | )
Balance at December 31, 2014 | $ | 252 |  | $ | — |  | $ | 4 |  | $ | 256 |
Payments | (152 | ) | — |  | (2 | ) | (154 | )
Net translation adjustment | (3 | ) | — |  | — |  | (3 | )
Other adjustments | (21 | ) | — |  | — |  | (21 | )
Balance at December 31, 2015 | $ | 76 |  | $ | — |  | $ | 2 |  | $ | 78 |
1. | Other non-personnel charges consist of contractual obligation costs.
2. | Table above excludes activity related to Performance Chemicals, presented as a discontinued operation in the company's Consolidated Income Statement. During 2014, the company recorded a charge of $21 related to Performance Chemicals, of which the company made payments of $13 prior to separation and transferred a liability of $2 to Chemours at separation on July 1, 2015.

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