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INCOME TAXES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
INCOME TAXES

6. INCOME TAXES

The Company’s worldwide effective tax rate was 15.6% and 17.9% in the first quarter of 2012 and 2011, respectively. The decrease in the Company’s worldwide effective tax rate in the first quarter of 2012 as compared to the same period of 2011 was primarily due to the movement of a portion of the Company’s pre-tax income from the United States to countries with lower statutory tax rates such as the United Kingdom, Russia and Belarus; and the reduction in 2012 statutory tax rates in Ukraine, the United Kingdom and, to a lesser extent, in Switzerland.