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Related parties transactions (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2019
Related Party [Abstract] |
Disclosure of transactions between related parties |
| Three months ended |  | Six months ended
($ millions) | June 30, 2019(1) | June 30, 2018 |  | June 30, 2019(1) | June 30, 2018
Sales from the Company to former parent | — |  | 1 |  |  | — |  | 2 |
Contract manufacturing revenues from former parent | — |  | — |  |  | 47 |  | — |
Purchases of the Company from former parent | — |  | 1 |  |  | 19 |  | 2 |
($ millions) | December 31, 2018(1) |
Trade and other receivables from former parent | 20 |
Trade and other payables to former parent | 85 |
Other financial receivables from former parent | 39 |
Other financial liabilities to former parent | 67 |
(1) Activity presented strictly relates to the period during which Novartis was a related party (up to April 9, 2019).

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