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Income Taxes (Tables)
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Reconciliation between the U.S. federal statutory tax rate and effective tax rate
A reconciliation between the U.S. federal statutory tax rate and our effective tax rate is summarized as follows:
 
For the Three Months
Ended September 30,
 
For the Nine Months
Ended September 30,
 
2019
 
2018
 
2019
 
2018
Statutory rate
21.0
 %
 
21.0
 %
 
21.0
 %
 
21.0
 %
State taxes
0.9

 
0.6

 
0.7

 
0.7

Taxes on foreign earnings
(5.0
)
 
(0.5
)
 
(4.7
)
 
(1.3
)
Credits and net operating loss utilization
(1.5
)
 
(1.0
)
 
(1.0
)
 
(0.8
)
Purchased intangible assets
0.4

 
0.3

 
0.4

 
0.5

Divestiture of Denmark manufacturing operations
—

 
—

 
1.5

 
—

Internal reorganization of certain intellectual property rights
(1.5
)
 
—

 
(2.1
)
 
—

GILTI
1.6

 
1.3

 
1.6

 
1.4

U.S. tax reform
—

 
(0.6
)
 
—

 
(0.3
)
Swiss tax reform
(3.1
)
 
—

 
(1.0
)
 
—

Other permanent items
(0.1
)
 
0.3

 
0.2

 
0.3

Other
(0.8
)
 
(1.0
)
 
(0.3
)
 
(0.2
)
Effective tax rate
11.9
 %
 
20.4
 %
 
16.3
 %
 
21.3
 %