INCOME TAXES	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
INCOME TAXES	INCOME TAXES C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. and its 80 percent (or more) owned U.S. subsidiaries file a consolidated federal income tax return. We file unitary or separate state returns based on state filing requirements. With few exceptions, we are no longer subject to audits of U.S. federal, state and local, or non-U.S. income tax returns before 2009. During the first quarter of 2016, we asserted that we will indefinitely reinvest earnings of foreign subsidiaries to support expansion of our international businesses. The assertion decreased deferred income taxes related to undistributed foreign earnings by $1.2 million and reduced the effective tax rate compared to the first quarter of 2015. Our effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 was 37.4 percent and 38.2 percent, respectively. The effective income tax rate for both periods is greater than the statutory federal income tax rate due to state income taxes, net of federal benefit.

INCOME TAXES

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. and its 80 percent (or more) owned U.S. subsidiaries file a consolidated federal income tax return. We file unitary or separate state returns based on state filing requirements. With few exceptions, we are no longer subject to audits of U.S. federal, state and local, or non-U.S. income tax returns before 2009. During the first quarter of 2016, we asserted that we will indefinitely reinvest earnings of foreign subsidiaries to support expansion of our international businesses. The assertion decreased deferred income taxes related to undistributed foreign earnings by $1.2 million and reduced the effective tax rate compared to the first quarter of 2015.

Our effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 was 37.4 percent and 38.2 percent, respectively. The effective income tax rate for both periods is greater than the statutory federal income tax rate due to state income taxes, net of federal benefit.