Restructuring and Other Charges (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]

Schedule of Restructuring and Other Charges by Reportable Segments, Pretax

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

	Third quarter ended September 30,					Nine months ended September 30,
	2017		2016			2017		2016
Engineered Products and Solutions	$	10	$	(1	)	$	24	$	16
Global Rolled Products		2		(1	)		76		1
Transportation and Construction Solutions		2		(2	)		11		6
Segment Total		14		(4	)		111		23
Corporate		5		7			7		10
Total Restructuring and other charges	$	19	$	3		$	118	$	33

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		(41	)		(5	)		(46	)
Restructuring charges		54			—			54
Other*		10			(1	)		9
Reserve balances at September 30, 2017	$	73		$	3		$	76

* 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.