Business Segment and Foreign Operations

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

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:



	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(In thousands)	2017		2016		2017		2016
United States	$	85,762	$	88,243	$	253,259	$	263,053
Asia (excluding PRC)	26,113		22,099		77,679		64,290
People's Republic of China	23,437		19,899		61,015		59,978
Europe	18,877		19,389		56,041		53,716
Latin America	13,567		13,032		44,593		32,273
Other	7,896		6,523		22,051		17,519
Total net sales	$	175,652	$	169,185	$	514,638	$	490,829

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:



(In thousands)	September 30, 2017		December 31, 2016
United States	$	14,233	$	11,948
People's Republic of China	95,165		94,113
All other countries	3,791		4,186
Total long-lived tangible assets	$	113,189	$	110,247