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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust – ‘13F-HR’ for 9/30/17 – ‘INFO-TABLE’

On:  Tuesday, 11/14/17, at 4:38pm ET   ·   Effective:  11/14/17   ·   For:  9/30/17   ·   Accession #:  1104659-17-68535   ·   File #:  28-10098

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

11/14/17  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundati… Tr 13F-HR      9/30/17    2:11K                                    Toppan Merrill/FA

Quarterly Holdings and Combination Report by a Money Manager   —   Form 13F
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 13F-HR      Quarterly Holdings and Combination Report by a      HTML      3K 
                Money Manager -- primary_doc.xml                                 
 2: INFO-TABLE  Information Table --                                HTML      3K 
                a17-27067_1informationtable.xml

‘INFO-TABLE’   —   Information Table — a17-27067_1informationtable.xml



        

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XML Data rendering:  Information Table — a17-27067_1informationtable.xml
 
                                                                                                                                                                                
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<nameOfIssuer> BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC DEL </nameOfIssuer>
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<nameOfIssuer> COCA COLA FEMSA S A B DE C V </nameOfIssuer>
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