At both December 31, 2021 and 2020, we had no interest rate swap agreements outstanding.

The Company had treasury lock agreements to protect against unfavorable movements in the benchmark treasury rate related to the issuance of our senior unsecured notes. These hedges were designated as cash flow hedges for hedge accounting purposes thus any change in fair value was recorded as a component of other comprehensive (loss) income. As part of the issuance of our senior notes, we net settled these derivatives for $10 million in cash. As a result of settling these derivatives the previously deferred gains recorded in other comprehensive (loss) income will be released to interest expense over the life of the senior notes. The effect of these settled treasury locks will reduce the effective interest rate on the senior notes by approximately 0.25%.

In November 2020 we entered into a cross currency and interest rate swap which is designated as a cash flow hedge of a €270 million, 5-year amortizing, intercompany loan between one of our European subsidiaries and the U.S. parent company. Changes in the spot exchange are recorded to the general ledger and offset the fair value re-measurement of the hedged item. The net difference in the interest rates coupons is recorded as a credit to interest expense. The derivative swaps €270 million bearing interest at a fixed rate of 0.30% for $319.9 million plus fixed rate interest of 1.115%. The interest coupons settle semi-annually. The principal will amortize each year on November 15, as follows: for years 1 through 4, beginning November 15, 2021, €50 million versus $59.2 million, and a final settlement on November 15, 2025 of €70 million versus $82.9 million. The carrying value of the derivative at December 31, 2021 is a current asset of $4.0 million and a long-term asset of $3.4 million.

A number of our European subsidiaries are exposed to the impact of exchange rate volatility between the U.S. dollar and the subsidiaries’ functional currencies, being either the Euro or the British pound sterling. We entered into contracts to exchange U.S. dollars for Euros and British pound sterling through June 2023. The aggregate notional amount of these contracts was $316.4 million at December 31, 2021 and $250.3 million at December 31, 2020. The purpose of these contracts is to hedge a portion of the forecasted transactions of European subsidiaries under long-term sales contracts with certain customers. These contracts are expected to provide us with a more balanced matching of future cash receipts and expenditures by currency, thereby reducing our exposure to fluctuations in currency exchange rates. The effective portion of the hedges was losses of $13.3 million, gains of $10.9 million and losses of $11.1 million, for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively, and are recorded in other comprehensive (loss) income. At December 31, 2021, $1.9 million of the carrying amount of these contracts was classified in assets ($1.7 million of which was recorded in prepaid expenses and other current assets) and $6.8 million as liabilities ($3.9 million of which is in other non-current liabilities) on the Consolidated Balance Sheets and $16.0 million classified in assets $10.7 million of which was recorded in prepaid expenses and other current assets) and $2.5 million as liabilities (less than $0.1 million of which is in other non-current liabilities) at December 31, 2020. During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 the net impact for the hedges recognized in sales was a gain of $5.2 million and a loss of $14.5 million, respectively. For the three years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, hedge ineffectiveness was immaterial.

In addition, we enter into foreign exchange forward contracts which are not designated as hedges. These are used to provide an offset to transactional gains or losses arising from the remeasurement of non-functional monetary assets and liabilities such as accounts receivable. The change in the fair value of the derivatives is recorded in the statement of operations. There are no credit contingency features in these derivatives. During the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, we recognized net foreign exchange losses of $1.3 million and $2.4 million, and gains of $0.4 million, respectively, in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. The carrying amount of the contracts for asset and liability derivatives not designated as hedging instruments was $0.2 million of current liabilities on our Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2021.

The activity, net of tax, in accumulated other comprehensive loss related to foreign currency forward exchange contracts for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 was as follows:


	2021			2020			2019
Unrealized (loss) gain at beginning of period, net of tax	$	10.6		$	(8.4	)	$	(10.6	)
Loss reclassified to net sales		(4.0	)		10.9			10.1
Increase (decrease) in fair value		(10.1	)		8.1			(7.9	)
Unrealized gain (loss) at end of period, net of taxes	$	(3.5	)	$	10.6		$	(8.4	)

Unrealized losses of $2.2 million recorded in accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of tax of $0.7 million, as of December 31, 2021 are expected to be reclassified into earnings over the next twelve months as the hedged sales are recorded. The impact of credit risk adjustments was immaterial for the three years.

On occasion we enter into commodity swap agreements to hedge against price fluctuations of raw materials, including propylene (the principal component of acrylonitrile). As of December 31, 2021, the Company had commodity swap agreements with a notional value of $18.9 million. The swaps mature monthly from January 2022 through September 2023. The swaps are accounted for as a cash flow hedge of our forward raw material purchases. To ensure the swaps are highly effective, all of the critical terms of the swap matched the terms of the hedged items. The fair value of the commodity swap agreements was an asset of $0.9 million ($0.9 million of which was recorded in prepaid expenses and other current assets) and a liability of $2.3 million at December 31, 2021 and an asset of $2.2 million ($1.5 million of which was recorded in prepaid expenses and other current assets) and a liability of $1.1 million at December 31, 2020.