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INVENTORIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
INVENTORIES
Inventories include raw materials, work-in-process and finished goods.
Inventories as of the End of Our Last Two Years
DOLLAR AMOUNTS IN MILLIONS
  
DECEMBER 31,
2016

DECEMBER 31,
2015

LIFO inventories:
 
 
Logs
$
18

$
5

Lumber, plywood and panels
51

48

Other products
20

11

FIFO or moving average cost inventories:
 
 
Logs
21

36

Lumber, plywood, panels and engineered wood products
71

75

Other products
92

84

Materials and supplies
85

66

Total
$
358

$
325


LIFO — the last-in, first-out method — applies to major inventory products held at our U.S. domestic locations. The FIFO — the first-in, first-out method — or moving average cost methods apply to the balance of our domestic raw material and product inventories as well as for all material and supply inventories and all foreign inventories. If we used FIFO for all LIFO inventories, our stated inventories would have been higher by $71 million as of December 31, 2016, and $67 million as of December 31, 2015, respectively.
HOW WE ACCOUNT FOR OUR INVENTORIES
The Inventories section of Note 1: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies provides details about how we account for our inventories.