BUSINESSES HELD FOR SALE, DIVESTITURES AND IMPAIRMENTS (Note)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2013

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

Businesses Held for Sale, Divestitures and Impairments [Note Text Block]

BUSINESSES HELD FOR SALE, DIVESTITURES AND IMPAIRMENTS

Discontinued Operations

On July 19, 2013, the Company finalized the sale of its Temple-Inland Building Products division, which included 15 manufacturing facilities, to Georgia-Pacific Building Products, LLC for approximately $733 million in cash, including preliminary customary closing adjustments.

On April 1, 2013, the Company finalized the sale of Temple-Inland's 50% interest in Del-Tin Fiber L.L.C. (Del-Tin) to joint venture partner Deltic Timber Corporation (Deltic) for $20 million in assumed liabilities and cash. Accordingly, the Del-Tin assets (which included a manufacturing facility) were excluded from the sale to Georgia-Pacific and the purchase price under our sale agreement with Georgia-Pacific was adjusted from $750 million to $710 million.

The operating results of the Temple-Inland Building Products business have been included in Discontinued operations from the date of acquisition. The assets of this business, totaling $759 million at December 31, 2012 are included in Assets of businesses held for sale in current assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2012. Included in this amount is $26 million and $153 million related to goodwill and intangibles, respectively. The liabilities of this business, totaling $44 million at December 31, 2012 are included in Liabilities of businesses held for sale in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2012.

Other Divestitures and Impairments

2012: During the three months ended September 30, 2012, the Company recorded a pre-tax charge of $19 million ($49 million after taxes) for additional costs associated with the divestiture of its Ontario and Oxnard (Hueneme), California containerboard mills and its New Johnsonville, Tennessee containerboard mill. Also during the three months ended September 30, 2012, a net gain of $1 million, before and after taxes, was recorded for other items.

As referenced in Note 7, on July 2, 2012, International Paper finalized the sales of its Ontario and Oxnard (Hueneme), California containerboard mills to New-Indy Containerboard LLC, and its New Johnsonville, Tennessee containerboard mill to Hood Container Corporation. A pre-tax charge of $9 million ($5 million after taxes) was recorded during the three months ended June 30, 2012 for costs associated with the divestiture of these three containerboard mills. Also, in anticipation of the divestiture of the Hueneme mill in Oxnard, California, a pre-tax charge of $62 million ($38 million after taxes) was recorded during the three months ended June 30, 2012 to adjust the long-lived assets of the mill to their fair value.

Also during the three months ended June 30, 2012, the Company recorded a pre-tax charge of $6 million ($4 million after taxes) to adjust the previously estimated loss on the sale of the Company's Shorewood business.

During the three months ended March 31, 2012, the Company recorded a pre-tax gain of $7 million ($6 million after taxes) to adjust the previously estimated loss on the sale of the Company’s Shorewood business. The sale of the Shorewood non-U.S. business was completed in January 2012.

All of the charges discussed above are included in Net (gains) losses on sales and impairments of businesses in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations.