. benefits from improved price realizations ( $ 156 million ) , sales volume increases ( $ 29 million ) , a more favorable mix ( $ 21 million ) , reduced market related downtime ( $ 25 million ) and strong mill performance ( $ 43 million ) were partially offset by the effects of higher raw material costs ( $ 12 million ) , higher freight costs ( $ 48 million ) , higher converting operations costs ( $ 21 mil- lion ) and other costs ( $ 26 million )