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Venezuela
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela has been designated hyper-inflationary and, therefore, the functional currency for the Company’s Venezuelan subsidiary (“CP Venezuela”) is the U.S. dollar and Venezuelan currency fluctuations are reported in income.

During the first quarter of 2014, the Venezuelan government enacted several changes to Venezuela’s foreign exchange regime, introducing a multi-tier foreign exchange system whereby there are now three exchange rate mechanisms available to convert Venezuelan bolivares to U.S. dollars. The Venezuelan government replaced CADIVI with a new foreign currency administration, the National Center for Foreign Commerce (“CENCOEX”). Although the official exchange rate remains at 6.30 bolivares per dollar, the exchange rate for foreign investments moved to the rate available on the SICAD I (Supplementary System for the Administration of Foreign Currency) currency market which, in the last auction during the first quarter of 2014, was 10.70 bolivares per dollar. As part of the changes in Venezuelas foreign exchange system enacted in the first quarter of 2014, the Venezuelan government also introduced an alternative currency market known as SICAD II.

The Company remeasures the financial statements of CP Venezuela at the end of each month at the rate at which it expects to remit future dividends which, based on the advice of legal counsel, is the SICAD I rate. Effective with the quarter ended March 31, 2014, the Company remeasured the majority of CP Venezuela’s local currency-denominated net monetary assets at the quarter-end SICAD I rate and incurred a pretax loss of $266 ($174 aftertax loss or $0.19 per diluted common share). Included in the loss is a charge related to the devaluation-protected bonds issued by the Venezuelan government and held by CP Venezuela. Because the official exchange rate remains at 6.30 bolivares per dollar, the devaluation-protected bonds did not revalue at the rate available on the SICAD I currency market but remained at the official exchange rate. CP Venezuela continues to be able to settle certain of its U.S. dollar obligations for imported materials at the official rate of 6.30 bolivares per dollar and records the gains related to such transactions when the funds are authorized by CENCOEX and the liabilities are paid.

In the first quarter of 2013, the Company incurred a pretax loss of $172 ($111 aftertax loss) related to the remeasurement of the net monetary assets in the local balance sheet at the date of the devaluation that changed the official exchange rate from 4.30 to 6.30 bolivares per dollar.

For the three months ended March 31, 2014, CP Venezuela represented approximately 3% of the Company’s consolidated Net sales. CP Venezuela incurred a small operating loss for the quarter ended March 31, 2014, which was insignificant in relation to the Company’s consolidated Operating profit. At March 31, 2014, CP Venezuelas local currency-denominated net monetary asset position, which would be subject to remeasurement in the event of further changes in the SICAD I rate, was approximately $489. This amount includes the devaluation-protected bonds issued by the Venezuelan government. CP Venezuelas local currency-denominated non-monetary assets were approximately $337 at March 31, 2014 and included approximately $226 of fixed assets that could be subject to impairment if CP Venezuela continues to be unable to implement price increases to offset the impacts of continued high inflation or further devaluations, or if it does not have sufficient access to U.S. dollars to fund imports.