DERIVATIVE LIABILITIES AND ASSETS (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Disclosure of Derivative Liabilities [Abstract]

Disclosure of information about amounts that affected statement of comprehensive income as result of hedge accounting [text block]

The following table presents amounts recognized in the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income for the year ended December 31, 2017 and 2016:

	Year ended		Year ended
	December 31, 2017		December 31, 2016
Gain on derivative contracts - currency contracts	$	-	$	5,265
Gain on derivative contracts - interest rate swap contracts		2,207		763
Gain on prepayment option embedded derivative		971		-
Total	$	3,178	$	6,028