RETIREMENT BENEFITS - Health Care Cost-Trend Rate (Details)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
Health care cost increase following year (as a percent)	7.00%	6.50%
Ultimate rate to which cost increase is assumed to decline (as a percent)	5.00%	5.00%
Year in which the ultimate rate is reached	2027	2023
U.S.
Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
Health care cost increase following year (as a percent)	7.00%	6.50%
Ultimate rate to which cost increase is assumed to decline (as a percent)	5.00%	5.00%
Year in which the ultimate rate is reached	2027	2023
Non-U.S.
Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
Health care cost increase following year (as a percent)	6.90%	6.87%
Ultimate rate to which cost increase is assumed to decline (as a percent)	6.90%	6.87%
Year in which the ultimate rate is reached	2019
Minimum \| Non-U.S.
Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
Year in which the ultimate rate is reached	2018
Maximum \| Non-U.S.
Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
Year in which the ultimate rate is reached	2019

Assumed rate, for next fiscal year, based on annual change in cost of health care cost benefits used to measure expected cost of benefits covered by defined benefit postretirement plan. Factors include, but are not limited to, estimate of health care inflation, change in health care utilization or delivery pattern, technological advances, and change in health status of participant. Excludes factors for change in composition of plan population by age and dependency status.

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