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Portion of the purchase price for the securitized receivables which is not paid in cash upon the sale taking place.

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Maximum value of net cash proceeds that are available at any one time under the asset-backed securitization and sales programs.

No definition available.

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Minimum period required to cancel certain trade accounts receivable sale programs.

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Minimum period required to give notice to not automatically extend certain trade accounts receivable sale programs.

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Percentage of trade account receivables sold to conduits administered by unaffiliated financial institutions or an unaffiliated financial institution.

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Value of trade accounts receivable sold during the period under the asset-backed securitization and sales programs.

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The expiration date of the specified trade accounts receivable sale program, factoring program or securitization program.

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Trade Accounts Receivable Securitization and Sale Program [Line Items]

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Cash Flows between a transferor and a transferee attributable to collections reinvested in revolving period transfers related to either a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in the transferred financial assets).

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Cash Flows between a transferor and a transferee attributable to newly transferred assets related to either a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in the transferred financial assets).

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Reflects, by transferred financial asset type, the amount of sales proceeds in excess of or deficient from the sum of the carrying amounts of transferred financial assets plus transaction costs, including those transactions in which the seller/transferor has continuing involvement with the financial assets that have been transferred.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51814546&loc=d3e107207-111719

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 10
-Section 40
-Paragraph 4
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=56951636&loc=d3e96813-111708

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