Business Segment and Foreign Operations

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Business Segment and Foreign Operations

Business Segment and Foreign Operations

Reportable Segment

An operating segment, in part, is a component of an enterprise whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance. Operating segments may be aggregated only to a limited extent. Our chief operating decision maker, the Chief Executive Officer, reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis, accompanied by disaggregated information about revenues for purposes of making operating decisions and assessing financial performance. Accordingly, we only have a single operating and reportable segment.

Foreign Operations

Our net sales to external customers by geographic area were as follows:

	Year Ended December 31,
(In thousands)	2016		2015		2014
United States	$	338,338	$	287,678	$	201,579
Asia (excluding PRC)	89,527		109,960		129,614
People’s Republic of China	77,224		74,475		98,057
Europe	74,113		65,579		70,663
Latin America	47,286		38,985		38,912
Other	24,883		26,156		23,504
Total net sales	$	651,371	$	602,833	$	562,329

Specific identification of the customer billing location was the basis used for attributing revenues from external customers to geographic areas.

Long-lived tangible assets by geographic area were as follows:

	December 31,
(In thousands)	2016		2015
United States	$	11,948	$	7,015
People's Republic of China	94,113		83,794
All other countries	4,186		4,571
Total long-lived tangible assets	$	110,247	$	95,380