Restructuring Costs Restructuring Costs	9 Months Ended
Restructuring Costs Restructuring Costs	Dec. 31, 2014
Restructuring Costs [Abstract]
Restructuring Costs	RESTRUCTURING COSTS Universal continually reviews its business for opportunities to realize efficiencies, reduce costs, and realign its operations in response to business changes. Restructuring costs are periodically incurred in connection with those activities. Nine Months Ended December 31, 2014 In the second quarter of fiscal year 2015, the Company announced plans to suspend its operations in Argentina, effective December 31, 2014. In connection with that decision, the Company's subsidiary in Argentina incurred costs related to employee terminations, as well as costs related to exiting its business arrangements with a supplier, during the second and third quarters. The Company also initiated and completed a program to downsize certain functions at its operations in Brazil during the nine months and recorded employee termination costs in connection with that initiative. Restructuring costs recorded during the quarter and nine months totaled approximately $1.1 million and $4.5 million, respectively, on a consolidated basis. The restructuring liability at December 31, 2014, was $0.9 million, which the Company expects will be paid before the end of the current fiscal year. Nine Months Ended December 31, 2013 In July 2013, the Company's subsidiary in Brazil announced plans to close a factory and centralize all tobacco processing activities in its primary facility. In connection with this initiative, the Company recorded restructuring costs totaling $2.6 million and $3.4 million during the quarter and nine months ended December 31, 2013, respectively. The costs included employee termination costs, costs to relocate personnel and equipment to the main facility, and lease exit costs on the building that housed the closed operations. Closure of the factory and related operations was substantially completed in December 2013. In addition, during the quarter and nine months ended December 31, 2013, the Company recorded $0.8 million and $1.3 million, respectively, of restructuring costs associated with other actions taken in various areas of its worldwide operations. All of the restructuring costs incurred to date in both fiscal years 2015 and 2014 related to operations that are part of the Other Regions reportable segment of the Company's flue-cured and burley leaf tobacco operations.

The entire disclosure for restructuring and related activities. Description of restructuring activities such as exit and disposal activities, include facts and circumstances leading to the plan, the expected plan completion date, the major types of costs associated with the plan activities, total expected costs, the accrual balance at the end of the period, and the periods over which the remaining accrual will be settled.

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