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BUSINESS SEGMENTS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2013
BUSINESS SEGMENTS
BUSINESS SEGMENTS
We are principally engaged in growing and harvesting timber; manufacturing, distributing and selling forest products; and developing real estate and building single-family homes. Our principal business segments are:
Timberlands – which includes logs; timber; minerals, oil and gas; and international wood products;
Wood Products – which includes softwood lumber, engineered lumber, structural panels and building materials distribution;
Cellulose Fibers – which includes pulp, liquid packaging board and an equity interest in a newsprint joint venture; and
Real Estate – which includes real estate development and single-family home building operations.
An analysis and reconciliation of our business segment information to the respective information in the Consolidated Financial Statements is as follows:
 
QUARTER ENDED
DOLLAR AMOUNTS IN MILLIONS
MARCH 2013
 
MARCH 2012
Sales to unaffiliated customers:
 
 
 
Timberlands
$
293

 
$
250

Wood Products
988

 
634

Cellulose Fibers
474

 
473

Real Estate
196

 
137

 
1,951

 
1,494

Intersegment sales:
 
 
 
Timberlands
224

 
190

Wood Products
18

 
20

 
242

 
210

Total sales
2,193


1,704

Intersegment eliminations
(242
)
 
(210
)
Total
$
1,951

 
$
1,494

Net contribution to earnings:
 
 
 
Timberlands
$
104

 
$
70

Wood Products
178

 
(13
)
Cellulose Fibers
31

 
48

Real Estate

 
(8
)
 
313

 
97

Unallocated Items(1)
(46
)
 
16

Net contribution to earnings
267

 
113

Interest expense, net of capitalized interest
(82
)
 
(87
)
Income before income taxes
185

 
26

Income taxes
(41
)
 
15

Net earnings attributable to Weyerhaeuser common shareholders
$
144

 
$
41


(1)
Unallocated Items are gains or charges not related to or allocated to an individual operating segment. They include a portion of items such as: share-based compensation; pension and postretirement costs; foreign exchange transaction gains and losses associated with financing; and the elimination of intersegment profit in inventory and the LIFO reserve.