William G. Quigley
Analyst
Brian, it's Bill. Let me first -- your first question on the net asset position. Our net asset position is about $65 million at the end of September, cash is about $35 million and then PP&E is about $35 million, right, so that's our net asset position in Venezuela. With respect to a divergence, if you will, from an official rate, a SICAD I rate, a SICAD II rate and then, obviously, a black market rate. So certainly, they're large spread. I think one step that was positive for automotive in general is in the third quarter. The fifth official authorization by the Venezuelan government that automotive and related suppliers would be operating into SICAD I rate. But to your question, moving forward, there is still a lot of volatility in the currency rates. I think long-term, having multiple tranches or currency controls probably isn't -- it isn't going to be a long-term thing, quite frankly. So you could see some convergence. There's been a lot of discussion on convergence. And we just even put and disclosed in our SEC filings that, if you were to have a move from VEF 12 to VEF 20, it's a 66% devaluation, you can kind of do the math on what would happen to the net assets of the business. I think the black market is probably trading at VEF 90 to the dollar. But -- so I think that's where we stand currently. I think what's more important, though, with respect to what or how we are viewing the business is, and it's no different than the discussion that we have in the first quarter nor the second quarter is, anywhere around the world where we operate, we operate to provide our customers the best product service available and the capability that we have. But at the same time, we're there because, potentially, customers are there. So I think we've worked very diligently with the customers with respect to this particular situation. We've implemented different business models, if you will, to minimize to growth, if you will, on the balance sheet of Venezuela and, certainly, the growth of U.S. denominated balances, if you will. So we're continuing to take all of those levers and actions as well as our team working with the Venezuelan government on, quite frankly, settling long-standing claims, I'll say, at effectively the official rate still. So a lot of hard work's going on there. But ultimately, we'll address Venezuela as we address it in every quarter. And quite frankly, we look at every alternative available to us, and we're continuing to have those discussions internally here, obviously, and with our Venezuelan teams.