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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
INCOME TAXES

For the three months ended September 30, 2016, we recorded income tax benefit of $0.1 million compared with $0.2 million for the three months ended September 26, 2015. Our effective tax rate was a 5.9% benefit for the three months ended September 30, 2016 compared with a 16.6% benefit in the prior year period. This decrease of $0.1 million in income tax benefit and the change in our effective rate was due to the increase in pretax income during the third quarter of 2016 compared with a pretax loss in the same period of 2015 and the geographical mix shift in pretax income expected for the full year 2016.  Income tax expense increased by $0.5 million to $1.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 from $0.9 million for the nine months ended September 26, 2015. Our effective tax rate decreased by 3.8 percentage points to 15.6% for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 from 19.4% for the same prior year period. 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.