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INCOME TAXES
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES INCOME TAXESThe Company’s effective tax rate from continuing operations for both of the nine month periods ended September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019 was 18.9 percent. The effective tax rate is lower than the U.S. statutory rate of 21 percent primarily due to foreign earnings taxed at rates below the U.S. statutory rate, the recognition of the U.S. foreign-derived intangible income
(FDII) provisions, and certain discrete events including excess tax benefits from share-based compensation. For the third quarter of 2020, the effective tax rate was 17.3 percent as compared to 19.8 percent for the third quarter of 2019.

The decrease in the effective tax rate for the third quarter of 2020, compared with the same period in 2019, was primarily a result of additional FDII benefit mostly resulting from the reconciliation of the domestic federal return to the provision.