or our customers' security concerns; 17) our exposure to various legal 
frameworks regulating corruption, fraud, trade policies, and other risk 
areas, and the possibility of proceedings or investigations that result 
in fines, penalties or sanctions; 18) adverse developments with respect 
to customer financing or extended payment terms we provide to customers; 
19) the potential complex tax issues, tax disputes and tax obligations 
we may face in various jurisdictions, including the risk of obligations 
to pay additional taxes; 20) our actual or anticipated performance, 
among other factors, which could reduce our ability to utilize deferred 
tax assets; 21) our ability to retain, motivate, develop and recruit 
appropriately skilled employees; 22) disruptions to our manufacturing, 
service creation, delivery, logistics and supply chain processes, and 
the risks related to our production sites; 23) the impact of litigation, 
arbitration, agreement-related disputes or product liability allegations 
associated with our business; 24) our ability to re-establish investment 
grade rating or maintain our credit ratings; 25) our ability to achieve 
targeted benefits from, or successfully implement planned transactions, 
as well as the liabilities related thereto; 26) our involvement in joint 
ventures and jointly-managed companies; 27) the carrying amount of our 
goodwill may not be recoverable; 28) uncertainty related to the amount 
of dividends and equity return (if any) we are able to distribute to 
shareholders for each financial period; 29) pension costs, employee 
fund-related costs, and healthcare costs; 30) our ability to 
successfully complete and capitalize on our order backlogs and continue 
converting our sales pipeline into net sales; 31) risks related to 
undersea infrastructure; and 32) the scope and duration of the COVID-19 
impact on the global economy and financial markets as well as our 
customers, supply chain, product development, service delivery, other 
operations and our financial, tax, pension and other assets, and the 
shape of the economic recovery following the pandemic as well as the 
risk factors specified in our 2020 annual report on Form 20-F published 
on March 4, 2021 under "Operating and financial review and 
prospects-Risk factors" and in our other filings or documents furnished 
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Other unknown or 
unpredictable factors or underlying assumptions subsequently proven to 
be incorrect could cause actual results to differ materially from those 
in the forward-looking statements. We do not undertake any obligation to 
publicly update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a 
result of new information, future events or otherwise, except to the 
extent legally required.

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