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Guarantees, Other Contingent Liabilities, And Other Matters (Narrative) (Details)
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Revolving credit facility [Member]
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Revolving credit facility [Member]
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Revolving credit facility [Member]
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Revolving credit facility [Member]
Five-year term [Member]
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Brazil [Member]
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Santa Catarina [Member]
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Guarantees, Other Contingent Liabilities, and Other Matters [Line Items]                                                              
Company total exposure under guarantees       $ 36,000,000us-gaap_GuaranteeObligationsMaximumExposure                                                      
Face amount of guarantee including unpaid accrued interest       38,000,000uvv_GuaranteeFaceAmountIncludingUnpaidAccruedInterest 41,000,000uvv_GuaranteeFaceAmountIncludingUnpaidAccruedInterest         20,000,000uvv_GuaranteeFaceAmountIncludingUnpaidAccruedInterest                                          
Fair value of the guarantees       2,000,000us-gaap_GuaranteesFairValueDisclosure 3,000,000us-gaap_GuaranteesFairValueDisclosure         2,000,000us-gaap_GuaranteesFairValueDisclosure                                          
Other contingent liabilities       2,000,000uvv_OtherContingentLiabilities                                                      
Brazil audit assessment for tax, penalties, and interest on recoverable value added tax credits                                                   18,000,000uvv_BrazilAuditAssessmentForTaxPenaltiesAndInterestOnRecoverableValueAddedTaxCredits
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    21,000,000uvv_BrazilAuditAssessmentForTaxPenaltiesAndInterestOnRecoverableValueAddedTaxCredits
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Reduced Brazil audit assessment for tax, penalties, and interest on recoverable value added tax credits                                                   15,000,000uvv_ReductionOfBrazilAuditAssessmentForTaxPenaltiesAndInterestOnRecoverableValueAddedTaxCredits
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17,000,000us-gaap_LossContingencyEstimateOfPossibleLoss
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Repayments of Medium-term Notes   100,000,000us-gaap_RepaymentsOfMediumTermNotes                                                          
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Stated Percentage             6.25%us-gaap_DebtInstrumentInterestRateStatedPercentage                                                
Five-year revolving credit facility           430,000,000us-gaap_LineOfCredit                                                  
Term loan                                     150,000,000us-gaap_LoansPayable
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Debt Instrument, Term                         5 years       5 years       7 years                    
Repayments of aggregate principal outstanding on term loan 248,800,000us-gaap_RepaymentsOfDebt                                                            
Reduction in revolving credit borrowings 120,000,000us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityIncreaseDecreaseForPeriodNet                                                            
Additional borrowings under present credit agreement           100,000,000us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityRemainingBorrowingCapacity                                                  
Debt Instrument, Basis Spread on Variable Rate                             1.50%us-gaap_DebtInstrumentBasisSpreadOnVariableRate1
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      1.75%us-gaap_DebtInstrumentBasisSpreadOnVariableRate1
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Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Effective Percentage                               1.69%us-gaap_DebtInstrumentInterestRateEffectivePercentage
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  2.94%us-gaap_DebtInstrumentInterestRateEffectivePercentage
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Amount outstanding revolving credit facility                           50,000,000us-gaap_LinesOfCreditCurrent
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Interest rate swap agreements notional amount       74,000,000invest_DerivativeNotionalAmount                                                      
Interest rate swap agreements         1,068,000us-gaap_InterestRateDerivativeLiabilitiesAtFairValue 600,000us-gaap_InterestRateDerivativeLiabilitiesAtFairValue       936,000us-gaap_InterestRateDerivativeLiabilitiesAtFairValue                                          
Fines imposed by European Commission               30,000,000uvv_FinesImposedByEuropeanCommission 38,900,000uvv_FinesImposedByEuropeanCommission   30,000,000uvv_FinesImposedByEuropeanCommission 30,000,000uvv_FinesImposedByEuropeanCommission                                      
Charge Recorded To Accrue European Commission Fine     49,100,000uvv_ChargeRecordedToAccrueEuropeanCommissionFine                                                        
Accumulated interest on European Commission fine                     5,900,000uvv_AccumulatedInterestOnEuropeanCommissionFine                                        
Total amount of Brazilian IPI federal tax credits made available by court decision                                                 104,000,000uvv_TotalAmountofBrazilianIPIFederalTaxCreditsMadeAvailablebyCourtDecision
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Brazilian federal taxes offset period                                                 5 years            
Net book value on tax credits from excise tax case after valuation allowance       24,000,000uvv_NetBookValueExciseCaseTaxCredits                                         90,000,000uvv_NetBookValueExciseCaseTaxCredits
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Gain on favorable outcome of excise tax case in Brazil       0uvv_Gainonsettlementofexcisetaxcase 81,619,000uvv_Gainonsettlementofexcisetaxcase                                       81,600,000uvv_Gainonsettlementofexcisetaxcase
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Gain on favorable outcome of excise tax case in Brazil, after tax                                                 53,100,000uvv_GainonfavorableoutcomeofexcisetaxcaseinBrazilaftertax
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Diluted earnings per share calculation based on gain from excise tax case in Brazil                                                 $ 1.87uvv_DilutedearningspersharecalculationbasedongainfromexcisetaxcaseinBrazil
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Remaining unused tax credits on excise tax case in Brazil at current exchange rate       40,000,000uvv_Remainingunusedtaxcredits                                                      
Advances to suppliers current and non-current       153,000,000uvv_AdvancesToSuppliersCurrentAndNoncurrent 174,000,000uvv_AdvancesToSuppliersCurrentAndNoncurrent         190,000,000uvv_AdvancesToSuppliersCurrentAndNoncurrent                                          
Valuation allowance amount related to advances to suppliers       40,000,000uvv_ValuationAllowanceAmountRelatedToAdvancesToSuppliers 46,000,000uvv_ValuationAllowanceAmountRelatedToAdvancesToSuppliers         46,000,000uvv_ValuationAllowanceAmountRelatedToAdvancesToSuppliers                                          
Provision for loss on uncollectible advances to suppliers       1,000,000uvv_ProvisionForLossOnUncollectibleAdvancesToSuppliers 9,000,000uvv_ProvisionForLossOnUncollectibleAdvancesToSuppliers                                                    
Aggregate balance of recoverable value added tax credits       66,000,000uvv_AggregateBalanceOfRecoverableValueAddedTaxCredits 75,000,000uvv_AggregateBalanceOfRecoverableValueAddedTaxCredits         66,000,000uvv_AggregateBalanceOfRecoverableValueAddedTaxCredits                                          
Valuation allowance on recoverable value added tax credits       $ 32,000,000uvv_ValuationAllowanceOnRecoverableValueAddedTaxCredits $ 28,000,000uvv_ValuationAllowanceOnRecoverableValueAddedTaxCredits         $ 30,000,000uvv_ValuationAllowanceOnRecoverableValueAddedTaxCredits