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INVENTORIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
INVENTORIES
INVENTORIES
Inventories include raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods as well as materials and supplies.
Inventories as of the End of Our Last Two Years
DOLLAR AMOUNTS IN MILLIONS
  
DECEMBER 31,
2018

DECEMBER 31,
2017

LIFO inventories:
 
 
Logs
$
11

$
17

Lumber, plywood, panels, and fiberboard
75

66

Other products
10

10

FIFO or moving average cost inventories:
 
 
Logs
35

38

Lumber, plywood, panels, fiberboard and engineered wood products
86

91

Other products
83

77

Materials and supplies
89

84

Total
$
389

$
383


LIFO — the last-in, first-out method — applies to major inventory products held at our U.S. domestic locations. The FIFO — the first-in, first-out method — or moving average cost methods apply to the balance of our domestic raw material and product inventories as well as for all material and supply inventories and all foreign inventories. If we used FIFO for all LIFO inventories, our stated inventories would have been higher by $79 million as of December 31, 2018, and $70 million as of December 31, 2017.
HOW WE ACCOUNT FOR OUR INVENTORIES
The Inventories section of Note 1: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies provides details about how we account for our inventories.