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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
INCOME TAXES
For the three months ended March 31, 2017, we recorded an income tax benefit of $0.5 million compared with income tax expense of $0.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2016. This decrease of $1.0 million in income tax expense was due to a pretax loss during the first quarter of 2017 compared to pretax income in the same period of 2016. Our effective tax rate was 24.4% for the three months ended March 31, 2017 compared with 15.0% in the prior year period. The change in our effective tax rate was due to a shift in the geographic mix of pretax income expected for the full year 2017.  Our effective tax rate continued to be lower than the statutory tax rate in the United States, mainly due to our global footprint in foreign jurisdictions with lower tax rates. However, our effective tax rate could be impacted positively or negatively by geographic changes in the manufacturing or sales of our products and the resulting effect on taxable income in each jurisdiction.