CONTINUING OPERATIONS

Domestic $  529 $(1,515) $ (593)

Foreign 1,992 1,820 1,829

Total $2,521 $  305 $1,236

2013 2012 2011 Taxes on Earnings From

Continuing Operations: Current: Domestic $   16 $  (21) $ (888) Foreign 555 979 797 Total current 571 958 (91) Deferred: Domestic (308) (572) 360 Foreign (125) (660) (159) Total deferred (433) (1,232) 201 Total $  138 $ (274) $  110

Differences between the effective income tax rate and the U.S. statutory tax rate were as follows:

2013 2012 2011 Statutory tax rate on earnings

from continuing operations 35.0% 35.0% 35.0% Benefit of lower tax rates and

tax exemptions on foreign income (18.0) (75.7) (14.9) Resolution of certain tax positions

pertaining to prior years (9.3) (69.4) (14.0)

Effect of retroactive legislation (4.1) — —

State taxes, net of federal benefit 1.7 3.4 (0.3)

All other, net 0.2 17.0 3.1

Effective tax rate on earnings

from continuing operations 5.5% (89.7)% 8.9% Abbott funds its domestic pension plans according to IRS funding

limitations. International pension plans are funded according to similar regulations. Abbott funded $724 million in 2013 and $379 million in 2012 to defined pension plans. Abbott expects to contribute approximately $400 million to its pension plans in 2014, of which approximately $300 million relates to its main domestic pension plan.

Total benefit payments expected to be paid to participants, which includes payments funded from company assets, as well as paid from the plans, are as follows:

Defined Medical and

(in millions) Benefit Plans Dental Plans

2014 $  186 $ 71 2015 198 73 2016 213 74 2017 229 76 2018 249 77 2019 to 2023 1,578 417

The Abbott Stock Retirement Plan is the principal defined contribution plan. Abbott’s contributions to this plan were $86 million in 2013, $150 million in 2012 and $151 million in 2011. The contribution amounts in 2012 and 2011 include amounts associated with the businesses transferred to AbbVie. NOTE 13 — TAXES ON EARNINGS FROM

CONTINUING OPERATIONS

Taxes on earnings from continuing operations reflect the annual effective rates, including charges for interest and penalties. Deferred income taxes reflect the tax consequences on future years of differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their financial reporting amounts.

In 2013, taxes on earnings from continuing operations reflect the recognition of $234 million of tax benefits as a result of the favorable resolution of various tax positions pertaining to prior years. Earnings from discontinued operations in 2013 include the recognition of $193 million of tax benefits as a result of the resolution of various tax positions related to AbbVie’s operations prior to the separation. In addition, as a result of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 signed into law in January 2013, Abbott recognized a tax benefit in the tax provision related to continuing operations of approximately $103 million for the retroactive extension of the research tax credit and the look- through rules of section 954(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code to the beginning of 2012. The $1.515 billion domestic loss before taxes in 2012 includes $1.29 billion of net loss on the early extinguishment of debt.

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NOTE 14 — SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC AREA INFORMATION Abbott’s principal business is the discovery, development, manufac- ture and sale of a broad line of health care products. Abbott’s products are generally sold directly to retailers, wholesalers, hospitals, health care facilities, laboratories, physicians’ offices and government agencies throughout the world. As a result of the separation of AbbVie, Abbott no longer has a Proprietary Pharmaceutical Products segment and this business has been removed from the 2012 and 2011 historical information presented below. Abbott’s reportable segments are as follows:

Established Pharmaceutical Products — International sales of a broad line of branded generic pharmaceutical products.

Nutritional Products — Worldwide sales of a broad line of adult and pediatric nutritional products.

Diagnostic Products — Worldwide sales of diagnostic systems and tests for blood banks, hospitals, commercial laboratories and alternate-care testing sites. For segment reporting purposes, the Core Laboratories Diagnostics, Molecular Diagnostics, Point of Care and Ibis diagnostic divisions are aggregated and reported as the Diagnostic Products segment.

Vascular Products — Worldwide sales of coronary, endovascular, structural heart, vessel closure and other medical device products. Non-reportable segments include the Diabetes Care and Medical Optics segments.

Abbott’s underlying accounting records are maintained on a legal entity basis for government and public reporting requirements. Segment disclosures are on a performance basis consistent with internal management reporting. The cost of some corporate functions and the cost of certain employee benefits are charged to segments at predetermined rates that approximate cost. Remaining costs, if any, are not allocated to segments. In addition, effective January 1, 2013, intangible asset amortization is not allocated to operating segments, and intangible assets and goodwill are not included in the measure of each segment’s assets. The segment information below for 2012 and 2011 has been adjusted to exclude intangible asset amortization from operating earnings and intangi- ble assets and goodwill from the total segment asset information. The tax effect of the differences that give rise to deferred tax

assets and liabilities were as follows:

(in millions) 2013 2012

Deferred tax assets:

Compensation and employee benefits $  862 $ 1,936 Other, primarily reserves not currently deductible,

and NOL’s and credit carryforwards 2,908 3,278

Trade receivable reserves 155 557

Inventory reserves 137 211

Deferred intercompany profit 274 1,095

State income taxes 196 197

Total deferred tax assets 4,532 7,274

Deferred tax liabilities:

Depreciation (72) (75)

Other, primarily the excess of book basis

over tax basis of intangible assets (1,774) (2,447) Total deferred tax liabilities (1,846) (2,522)

Total net deferred tax assets $ 2,686 $ 4,752

Abbott has incurred losses in a foreign jurisdiction where realization of the future economic benefit is so remote that the benefit is not reflected as a deferred tax asset. Valuation allow- ances for recorded deferred tax assets were not significant. The following table summarizes the gross amounts of unrecognized tax benefits without regard to reduction in tax liabilities or addi- tions to deferred tax assets and liabilities if such unrecognized tax benefits were settled:

(in millions) 2013 2012

January 1 $2,257 $2,123

Increase due to current year tax positions 244 673 Increase due to prior year tax positions 152 62 Decrease due to prior year tax positions (541) (438)

Lapse of statute (23) —

Settlements (124) (163)

December 31 $1,965 $2,257

The total amount of unrecognized tax benefits that, if recognized, would impact the effective tax rate is approximately $1.7 billion. Abbott believes that it is reasonably possible that the recorded amount of gross unrecognized tax benefits may decrease by $350 million to $425 million, including cash adjustments, within the next twelve months as a result of concluding various domestic and international tax matters.

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The following segment information has been prepared in accordance with the internal accounting policies of Abbott, as described above, and are not presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles applied to the consolidated financial statements.

Net Sales to

(in millions) External Customers (a) Operating Earnings (a) 2013 2012 2011 2013 2012 2011 Established Pharmaceuticals $ 4,974 $  5,121 $ 5,355 $1,182 $1,237 $1,254 Nutritionals 6,740 6,461 5,989 1,263 1,020 792 Diagnostics 4,545 4,292 4,126 1,008 825 794 Vascular 3,012 3,071 3,333 962 1,020 1,111 Total Reportable Segments 19,271 18,945 18,803 $4,415 $4,102 $3,951 Other 2,577 2,549 2,604 Total $21,848 $21,494 $21,407

(a) Net sales and operating earnings were unfavorably affected by the relatively stronger U.S. dollar in 2013 and 2012 and were favorably affected by the relatively weaker U.S. dollar in 2011.

(in millions) 2013 2012 2011

Total Reportable Segment Assets $11,178 $11,136 $11,905 Cash, investments and restricted funds (c) 8,217 15,448 8,476 Current deferred income taxes (c) 2,528 2,986 2,701

Non-reportable segments 1,181 1,167 1,148

Goodwill and intangible assets (c) 15,507 24,362 25,695

All other (c) 4,342 12,136 10,352

Total Assets $42,953 $67,235 $60,277

(c) In 2012 and 2011, the reported amounts include assets associated with the businesses transferred to AbbVie as part of the separation.

(in millions) 2013 2012 2011

Total Reportable Segment

Operating Earnings $4,415 $ 4,102 $ 3,951

Corporate functions and

benefit plans costs (514) (598) (529)

Non-reportable segments 423 443 457

Net interest expense (90) (288) (294)

Net loss on extinguishment of debt — (1,351) —

Share-based compensation (262) (284) (256)

Amortization of intangible assets (791) (795) (884)

Other, net (b) (660) (924) (1,209)

Earnings from Continuing Operations

before Taxes $2,521 $  305 $ 1,236

(b) Other, net includes: charges for cost reduction initiatives of approximately $350 million in 2013 and $430 million in 2012; and charges of $240 million in 2011 for cost reduction initiatives and integration.

Net Sales to

(in millions) External Customers (d) Long-term Assets (e) 2013 2012 2011 2013 2012 2011 United States $ 6,269 $ 6,349 $ 6,302 $ 7,884 $15,244 $15,867 Japan 1,442 1,723 1,726 902 1,169 1,225 Germany 1,070 984 1,058 1,040 6,173 5,909 The Netherlands 960 1,107 1,204 560 532 462 China 1,083 859 625 356 259 127 India 922 919 917 3,080 3,467 3,160 Brazil 470 448 470 216 200 186 Switzerland 792 693 591 1,117 1,214 1,045 Canada 734 753 652 368 352 237 Italy 726 719 761 100 222 229 France 680 667 781 213 220 214 Russia 525 485 427 30 37 21 Spain 413 417 447 326 314 293 United Kingdom 479 497 475 1,380 1,345 1,273 All Other Countries 5,283 4,874 4,971 6,133 5,164 6,260 Consolidated $21,848 $21,494 $21,407 $23,705 $35,912 $36,508 (d) Sales by country are based on the country that sold the product.

Additions to

(in millions) Depreciation Long-term Assets Total Assets

2013 2012 2011 2013 2012 2011 2013 2012 2011

Established Pharmaceuticals $ 84 $  156 $  169 $  128 $  237 $  122 $ 2,637 $ 2,805 $ 4,348

Nutritionals 190 175 167 340 428 205 3,518 3,211 2,939

Diagnostics 368 295 313 394 349 394 3,312 3,286 3,218

Vascular 122 76 99 62 69 109 1,711 1,834 1,400

Total Reportable Segments 764 702 748 924 1,083 830 $11,178 $11,136 $11,905

Other 164 661 647 982 902 845

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