104 Geographic Information The following table presents net sales to unaf filiated customers by country of destination for the last three years and long-lived assets by country as of December 31:   Net Sales Long-lived Assets   Year Ended Year Ended (in millions) Dec 31, 2012 Dec 31, 2011 Dec 31, 2010 Dec 31, 2012 Dec 31, 2011 United States $ 1,859.5 $ 1,712.2 $ 1,471.6 $ 337.9 $ 238.3 Canada 441.3 379.8 316.4 45.6 16.8 France 494.9 506.0 445.2 78.3 78.3 Brazil 440.1 478.7 317.1 121.3 120.9 Spain 319.0 400.1 405.6 169.8 180.0 Others 2,459.5 2,389.9 1,909.0 932.4 845.0 Total $ 6,014.3 $ 5,866.7 $ 4,864.9 $ 1,685.3 $ 1,479.3 18. Commitments and Contingencies The Company is subject to a variety of federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations covering the storage, handling, emission and dischar ge of materials into the environment, including CERCLA, the Clean W ater Act, the Clean Air Act (including the 1990 amendments) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The Company’ s subsidiaries in the United States have been identified as potentially responsible parties with respect to several sites designated for cleanup under CERCLA or similar state laws, which impose liability for cleanup of certain waste sites and for related natural resource damages without regard to fault or the legality of waste generation or disposal. Persons liable for such costs and damages generally include the site owner or operator and persons that disposed or arranged for the disposal of hazardous substances found at those sites. Although CERCLA imposes joint and several liability on all potentially responsible parties, in application, the potentially responsible parties typically allocate the investigation and cleanup costs based upon, among other things, the volume of waste contributed by each potentially responsible party . Settlements can often be achieved through negotiations with the appropriate environmental agency or the other potentially responsible parties. Potentially responsible parties that contributed small amounts of waste (typically less than 1% of the waste) are often given the opportunity to settle as “de minimus” parties, resolving their liability for a particular site. The Company does not own or operate any of the waste sites with respect to which it has been named as a potentially responsible party by the government. Based on the Company’ s review and other factors, it believes that costs to the Company relating to environmental clean-up at these sites will not have a material adverse ef fect on its results of operations, cash flows or financial position. In the transaction with W assall PLC in 1994, American Premier Underwriters, Inc. agreed to indemnify the Company against liabilities (including all environmental liabilities) arising out of the Company’ s or the Company’ s predecessors’ ownership or operation of the Indiana Steel & W ire Company and Marathon Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. businesses (which were divested by the predecessor prior to the 1994 W assall transaction), without limitation as to time or amount. American Premier also agreed to indemnify the Company against 66 2/3 % of all other environmental liabilities arising out of the Company’ s or the Company’ s predecessors’ ownership or operation of other properties and assets in excess of $10 million but not in excess of $33 million , which were identified during the seven-year period ended June 2001. Indemnifiable environmental liabilities through June 2001 were substantially below that threshold. In addition, the Company also has claims against third parties with respect to some of these liabilities. At December 31, 2012 and 201 1 , General Cable had an accrued liability of approximately $ 1.9 million , for various environmental- related liabilities of which General Cable is aware. While it is dif ficult to estimate future environmental-related liabilities accurately , General Cable does not currently anticipate any material adverse impact on its results of operations, financial position or cash flows as a result of compliance with federal, state, local or foreign environmental laws or regulations or cleanup costs of the sites discussed above. In addition, Company subsidiaries have been named as defendants in lawsuits alleging exposure to asbestos in products manufactured by the Company . As of December 31, 2012 , General Cable was a defendant in approximately 29,089 cases brought in Federal District Courts throughout the United States. In calendar years 2012 , 201 1 and 2010 , 1 13 , 1 15 , and 95 asbestos cases, respectively , were brought against the Company . In the last 20 years, General Cable has had no cases proceed to verdict. In many of the cases, General Cable was dismissed as a defendant before trial for lack of product identification. As of December 31, 2012 , 21,868 asbestos cases have been dismissed. In calendar years 2012 , 201 1 and 2010 , 66 cases, 61 cases and 5,491 cases, respectively , were dismissed. W ith regards to the approximately 29,089 remaining pending cases, General Cable is aggressively defending T able of Contents