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| Segment Information                                         | Supplemental segment data and reconciliations to consolidated external reporting for the years ended December 31 was as follows:(Millions of dollars) 2013Revenues SegmentProfit InterestExpense Depreciationon equipmentleased toothers Provisionforcreditlosses SegmentAssets atDecember 31,2013 CapitalexpendituresNorth America$946 $286 $259 $293 $— $12,158 $782Europe and CPF505 146 110 86 47 8,068 242Asia/Pacific399 168 135 25 5 5,272 54Latin America414 92 137 93 32 4,953 272Mining472 85 79 270 12 3,441 453Total Segments2,736 777 720 767 96 33,892 1,803Unallocated73 (73) 53 1 2 1,595 1Timing(26) (10) — — (4) 68 2Methodology— 24 (39) — — (190) —Inter-segment Eliminations— — — — — (227) —Total$2,783 $718 $734 $768 $94 $35,138 $1,806               2012Revenues SegmentProfit InterestExpense Depreciationon equipmentleased toothers Provisionforcreditlosses SegmentAssets atDecember 31,2012 CapitalexpendituresNorth America$938 $263 $270 $274 $15 $11,305 $565Europe and CPF467 84 134 76 65 7,785 243Asia/Pacific399 132 155 23 24 6,151 133Latin America389 111 141 64 26 4,973 172Mining451 60 90 250 27 3,212 545Total Segments2,644 650 790 687 157 33,426 1,658Unallocated73 (93) 61 1 1 1,529 —Timing(24) (6) — — 3 17 2Methodology— 40 (50) — — (61) —Inter-segment Eliminations— — — — — (169) —Total$2,693 $591 $801 $688 $161 $34,742 $1,660               2011Revenues SegmentProfit InterestExpense Depreciationon equipmentleased toothers Provisionforcreditlosses SegmentAssets atDecember 31,2011 CapitalexpendituresNorth America$959 $222 $303 $276 $34 $10,867 $530Europe and CPF506 37 166 89 105 6,922 118Asia/Pacific333 112 129 16 28 4,605 42Latin America350 111 127 47 17 3,995 175Mining446 72 90 260 3 2,635 321Total Segments2,594 554 815 688 187 29,024 1,186Unallocated73 (92) 69 2 2 1,253 3Timing(22) 6 — — (13) 67 1Methodology— 36 (57) — — 15 —Inter-segment Eliminations— — — — — (247) —Total$2,645 $504 $827 $690 $176 $30,112 $1,190               |
| Revenue and Equipment, Inside and outside the United States | Inside and outside the United States: (Millions of dollars)        2013 2012 2011Revenues      Inside U.S. $1,043 $1,009 $991Inside Canada 329 330 324Inside Australia 287 302 297All other 1,124 1,052 1,033Total $2,783 $2,693 $2,645       Equipment on Operating Leases and Non-Leased  Equipment (included in Other Assets), Net 2013 2012 2011Inside U.S. $1,423 $1,204 $1,046Inside Canada 729 735 639Inside Australia 434 336 292All other 1,037 788 686Total $3,623 $3,063 $2,663                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |

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Tabular disclosure of information concerning material long-lived assets (excluding financial instruments, customer relationships with financial institutions, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred taxes assets) located in identified geographic areas and/or the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to that country from which revenue is material.  An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries.
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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.
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