Restructuring and Other Charges (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2017

Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]

Schedule of Restructuring and Other Charges by Reportable Segments, Pretax

 The pretax impact of allocating such charges to segment results would have been as follows:

	Second quarter ended June 30,						Six months ended June 30,
	2017			2016			2017		2016
Engineered Products and Solutions	$	8		$	9		$	14	$	17
Global Rolled Products		17			—			74		2
Transportation and Construction Solutions		6			8			9		8
Segment Total		31			17			97		27
Corporate		(5	)		(3	)		2		3
Total Restructuring and other charges	$	26		$	14		$	99	$	30

Activity and Reserve Balances for Restructuring Charges

Activity and reserve balances for restructuring charges were as follows:

	Layoff costs			Other exit costs			Total
Reserve balances at December 31, 2015	$	84		$	9		$	93
2016:
Cash payments		(73	)		(13	)		(86	)
Restructuring charges		70			27			97
Other*		(31	)		(14	)		(45	)
Reserve balances at December 31, 2016		50			9			59
2017:
Cash payments		(26	)		(5	)		(31	)
Restructuring charges		43			—			43
Other*		10			(1	)		9
Reserve balances at June 30, 2017	$	77		$	3		$	80

* Other includes reversals of previously recorded restructuring charges and the effects of foreign currency translation. In 2017, Other for layoff costs includes the reclassification of a stock awards reversal of $13. In 2016, Other for other exit costs also included reclassifications of $8 in asset retirement, $2 in environmental obligations and $4 in legal obligations as these liabilities were included in Arconic’s separate reserves for asset retirement obligations, environmental remediation and legal costs.