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• Changes in tax laws or their interpretations;
• Changes in financial markets impacting pension expense and funding requirements;
• Risks related to labor relations and workplace safety;
• Nonperformance by major customers, suppliers, dealers, distributors or other business
partners;
• General economic, financial and business conditions which could affect Sunoco’s finan-
cial condition and results of operations;
• Changes in applicable statutes and government regulations or their interpretations, in-
cluding those relating to the environment and global warming;
• Claims of the Company’s noncompliance with statutory and regulatory requirements;
and
• Changes in the status of, or initiation of new, litigation to which the Company is a
party or liability resulting from litigation or administrative proceedings, including
natural resource damage claims.
The factors identified above are believed to be important factors (but not necessarily all of
the important factors) that could cause actual results to differ materially from those ex-
pressed in any forward-looking statement made by Sunoco. Unpredictable or unknown fac-
tors not discussed herein could also have material adverse effects on the Company. All
forward-looking statements included in this Annual Report to Shareholders are expressly
qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. The Company under-
takes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement (or its associated
cautionary language) whether as a result of new information or future events.
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