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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
Note 7 — INCOME TAXES
During the first quarter of 2016, the Company's effective tax rate of 31.6% differed from the Company's federal statutory rate of 35.0% primarily due to the favorable impact of foreign tax rate differences on foreign earnings. The effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2015 was 43.3%. The decrease in effective tax rate of 11.7% is primarily due to a foreign court ruling that settled an uncertain tax position taken in a prior year negatively impacting the 2015 effective tax rate by 15.3%. Partially offsetting this increase in the first quarter of 2015 was a benefit of amending certain prior period tax returns associated with the use of foreign tax credits.