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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
INCOME TAXES
For the three months ended June 30, 2017, we recorded an income tax benefit of $0.9 million compared with income tax expense of $0.9 million for the three months ended June 30, 2016. This change of $1.8 million was due to a pretax loss during the second quarter of 2017 compared to pretax income in the same period of 2016. Our effective tax rate was 20.2% for the three months ended June 30, 2017 compared with 21.3% in the prior year period. The decrease in our effective tax rate was primarily due to a shift in the geographic mix of pretax income expected for the full year 2017.  For the six months ended June 30, 2017, we recorded an income tax benefit of $1.4 million compared with income tax expense of $1.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2016. This change of $2.9 million was due to a pretax loss during the six months ended June 30, 2017 compared to pretax income in the same period of 2016. Our effective tax rate increased by 3.1 percentage points to 21.5% for the six months ended June 30, 2017 from 18.4% for the same period of 2016. The increase was primarily driven by the shift in the geographic mix of pretax income. Our effective tax rate continued to be lower than the statutory tax rate in the United States, mainly due to our global footprint in foreign jurisdictions with lower tax rates. However, our effective tax rate could be impacted positively or negatively by geographic changes in the manufacturing or sales of our products and the resulting effect on taxable income in each jurisdiction.