Available liquidity includes existing cash balances. The amount of available liquidity is subject to fluctuations and includes cash balances held by various entities worldwide. At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 approximately $65 million and $118 million, respectively, of cash and cash equivalents were held within the U.S. and approximately $93 million and $83 million, respectively, of cash and cash equivalents were held outside the U.S. Cash balances held outside the U.S. are generally required to support local country operations and may have high tax costs or other limitations that delay the ability to repatriate, and therefore may not be readily available for transfer to other jurisdictions. Kodak utilizes cash balances outside the U.S. to fund needs in the U.S. through the use of inter-company loans.
As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, outstanding intercompany loans to the U.S. were $471 million and $483 million, respectively, which included short-term intercompany loans from Kodak’s international finance center of $198 million and $208 million, respectively. In China, where approximately $39 million and $29 million of cash and cash equivalents was held as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, there are limitations related to net asset balances that may impact the ability to make cash available to other jurisdictions in the world. Under the terms of the Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement, the Company is permitted to invest up to $60 million (or $75 million after the Deleveraging Milestone Date) in Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties and in joint ventures or Unrestricted Subsidiaries that are not party to the Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement.
The Company’s Hong Kong subsidiary has an intercompany loan from one of the Company’s Chinese subsidiaries with a maturity date of November 16, 2026, the proceeds of which were in turn loaned to the Company. The terms of the intercompany loan require the Company to make efforts to repay the outstanding loan balance prior to maturity. The outstanding amount of the intercompany loan as of March 31, 2025 was $68 million. The Company is evaluating repayment alternatives for the current loan agreement which would allow Kodak and its subsidiaries to perform their obligations to each other while minimizing the impact on U.S. liquidity taking into account requirements imposed by Chinese regulators. Any amounts repaid to the Chinese subsidiary may not be able to be loaned, repatriated or otherwise moved back to the U.S., in which case the Company’s U.S. liquidity would be reduced.
Kodak's cash flows continue to be negatively impacted by volume declines, higher manufacturing costs and increased labor, material and distribution costs, supply chain disruptions and shortages in materials and labor. The impacts from price increases, continued cost reduction actions and supply chain-related cost improvements continue to positively impact Kodak’s operations.
On February 26, 2025, the Company entered into the First Amendment to the Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement (the “February 2025 Term Loan Credit Agreement Amendment”) and an amendment to the Amended and Restated L/C Facility Agreement (the “2025 L/C Facility Agreement Amendment”) to modify the maturity date under each agreement. To the extent the Series B or Series C Preferred Stock maturity date is not extended, and the shares remain outstanding, then the maturity date of the Term Loans will be accelerated from August 15, 2028 to May 22, 2026. In addition, the maturity date under the 2025 Amended and Restated L/C Facility Agreement would be accelerated to May 12, 2026.
On May 7, 2025, the Company entered into the Second Amendment to the Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement (the “May 2025 Term Loan Credit Agreement Amendment”, together the February 2025 Term Loan Credit Agreement Amendment, the “2025 Term Loan Credit Agreement Amendments”). The May 2025 Term Loan Credit Agreement Amendment provides the Company the option to pay the cash interest payment entirely in PIK for the next six quarterly interest payments and revises the mandatory prepayment provisions under the Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement relating to certain transactions (see further discussion below under Kodak Retirement Income Plan section).
Kodak's plans to return to sustainable positive cash flow include generating profitable revenues through continued pricing actions and customer-focused initiatives, implementing effective working capital utilization, reducing operating expenses, continuing to simplify the organizational structure, investing in IT systems to drive operational efficiencies, effectively managing world-wide cash through intercompany loans, distributions or other mechanisms, generating cash from selling and leasing underutilized assets or through new licensing opportunities and implementing ways to reduce cash collateral needs. In addition, proceeds received from the settlement of the KRIP, after required debt prepayments, as further discussed below, would be available for use for strategic growth or general corporate purposes.
The economic uncertainties surrounding the current inflationary environment and other global events represent additional elements of complexity in Kodak’s plans to return to sustainable positive cash flow. The Company cannot predict the duration and scope of such events, including the impact of rising costs of labor, commodity and distribution costs and increased product costs from tariffs, the war in Ukraine and the conflicts involving Israel, and other factors such as the ability to continue to secure raw materials and components, the ability to increase prices to offset rising product costs or how quickly and to what extent normal economic and operating conditions can resume.