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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;27. DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Australian Styrenics Business Shutdown &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;During the first quarter of 2010, we ceased operation of our former Australian styrenics business. During 2009, we recorded costs of approximately $63&amp;nbsp;million related to the closure of this business. U.S. tax law, under relevant facts, provides for a deduction on investments that are "worthless" for U.S. tax purposes. Therefore, during 2009, we recorded a tax benefit of $73&amp;nbsp;million in discontinued operations related to the closure of and the cumulative U.S. investments in our Australian Styrenics business. During 2010, we recorded additional closure costs of $6&amp;nbsp;million. Also during 2010, we recorded a $19&amp;nbsp;million loss from the recognition of cumulative currency translation losses upon the liquidation and substantial liquidation of foreign entities related to this business. Furthermore, we recorded an additional tax benefit of $28&amp;nbsp;million in 2010 related to the closure of this business. The following results of operations of our former Australian styrenics business have been presented as discontinued operations in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations (dollars in millions): &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The results of our former Australian styrenics business were previously included in our Corporate and other segment and have been presented as discontinued operations in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;U.S. BASE CHEMICALS BUSINESS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;On November&amp;nbsp;5, 2007, we completed a disposition of our U.S. base chemicals businesses, which included our former olefins manufacturing assets located at Port Arthur, Texas (the "U.S. Base Chemicals Disposition"). A captive ethylene unit at the retained Port Neches, Texas site of our Performance Products segment operations was not included in the sale. This asset, along with a long-term post-closing arrangement for the supply of ethylene and propylene from Flint Hills Resources to us, will continue to provide feedstock for our downstream derivative units.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The following results of our former U.S base chemicals business have been presented as discontinued operations in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations (dollars in millions): &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Gain (loss) on insurance settlements, net&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;110&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(17&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;175&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(15&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;183&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Income tax expense (benefit)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;38&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;68&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In connection with the U.S. Base Chemicals Disposition, we recognized a pretax loss on disposal of $146&amp;nbsp;million in 2007. During 2008, we recognized an adjustment to the loss on disposal of $8&amp;nbsp;million related to a sales and use tax settlement, and post-closing adjustments. In addition, during 2008, we recognized a $175&amp;nbsp;million gain from the partial settlement of insurance claims related to the fire at our former Port Arthur, Texas facility. During 2009, we recorded legal fees of $17&amp;nbsp;million related to the ongoing arbitration of the fire insurance claim and recorded a gain of $2&amp;nbsp;million on the settlement of product exchange liabilities. During 2010, we recorded a $110&amp;nbsp;million pretax gain in connection with the final settlement of insurance claims related to the 2006 fire at our former Port Arthur, Texas plant and a pretax gain of $7&amp;nbsp;million from the settlement of insurance claims related to the 2005 gulf coast storms. These 2010 insurance settlement gains were offset in part by income taxes and legal fees related to the arbitration of the fire insurance claim. See "Note&amp;nbsp;25. Casualty Losses and Insurance Recoveries." &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The results of our former U.S. base chemicals business are included in discontinued operations for all periods presented. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NORTH AMERICAN POLYMERS BUSINESS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;On August&amp;nbsp;1, 2007 we completed the disposition of our former polymers manufacturing assets located at four U.S. sites: Odessa and Longview, Texas; Peru, Illinois; and Marysville, Michigan (the "North American Polymers Disposition"). In accordance with the amended and restated asset purchase agreement with Flint Hills Resources, we also shut down our Mansonville, Quebec expandable polystyrene manufacturing facility in June 2007. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;During 2008, we recorded an adjustment to the loss on disposal in connection with the North American Polymers Disposition of $3&amp;nbsp;million primarily related to property tax settlements and post-closing adjustments. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The results of our former North American polymers business are included in discontinued operations for all periods presented. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In connection with the U.S. Base Chemicals Disposition and the North American Polymers Disposition, we agreed to indemnify Flint Hills Resources with respect to any losses resulting from (i)&amp;nbsp;the breach of representations and warranties contained in the amended and restated asset purchase agreement, (ii)&amp;nbsp;any pre-sale liabilities related to certain assets not assumed by Flint Hills Resources, and (iii)&amp;nbsp;any unknown environmental liability related to the pre-sale operations of the assets sold. We are not required to pay under these indemnification obligations until claims against us, on a cumulative basis, exceed $10&amp;nbsp;million. Upon exceeding this $10&amp;nbsp;million threshold, we generally are obligated to provide indemnification for any losses up to a limit of $150&amp;nbsp;million. We believe that the likelihood that we will be required to pay any significant amounts under the indemnity provision is remote.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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Australian Styrenics Business Shutdown
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