Company: LW
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001679273-25-000049
Chunk: 41

Company: Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 41
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 we must translate the assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses into U.S. dollars for external reporting purposes; 

•changes in trade, monetary and fiscal policies of the U.S. and foreign governments, including modification or termination of existing trade agreements or treaties, creation of new trade agreements or treaties, trade regulations, and increased or new tariffs, sanctions, quotas, import or export licensing requirements, and other trade barriers imposed by governments;

•changes in capital controls, including currency exchange controls, government currency policies or other limits on our ability to import raw materials or finished products into various countries or repatriate cash from outside the United States;

•negative economic developments in economies around the world and the instability of governments, including the actual or threat of wars, terrorist attacks, epidemics or civil unrest, including the war in Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East;

•currency devaluations or fluctuations in currency values, including in developed and emerging markets, such as the highly inflationary environment in Argentina; 

•earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts, floods or other major disasters that may limit the supply of raw materials that are purchased abroad for use in our international operations or domestically; 

•volatile commodity prices and increased costs of raw and packaging materials, labor, energy and transportation, disruptions in shipping or reduced availability of freight transportation and warehousing, such as the reduced availability of shipping containers that we encountered in fiscal 2022;

•pandemics and other public health crises, which may lead, and in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, led, to measures that decrease revenues, disrupt our supply chain or otherwise increase our storage, production or distribution costs and adversely affect our workforce, local suppliers, customers and consumers of our products;

•differing employment practices and labor standards in the international markets in which we operate; 

•differing levels of protection of intellectual property across the international markets in which we operate;

•difficulties and costs associated with complying with U.S. laws and regulations applicable to entities with overseas operations, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; 

•the threat that our operations or property could be subject to nationalization and expropriation; 

•varying regulatory, tax, judicial and administrative practices in the international markets in which we operate;

•difficulties associated with operating under a wide variety of complex foreign laws, treaties and regulations; and 

•potentially burdensome taxation.

The nature and degree of the various risks we face can differ significantly among our regions and businesses. All these