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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2018
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Components of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | The following tables display the changes in AOCI by component net of tax for the six months ended June 30, 2018 (in millions):
|  | Cumulative Translation Adjustment |  |  | Pension and Postretirement Costs |  |  | Derivative Financial Instruments |  |  | AOCI |
Balance at December 31, 2017 |  | $ | (318.8 | ) |  | $ | (385.5 | ) |  | $ | (58.8 | ) |  | $ | (763.1 | )
Other comprehensive (loss) income before reclassifications |  |  | (175.0 | ) |  |  | (29.0 | ) |  |  | 5.3 |  |  |  | (198.7 | )
Amounts reclassified to earnings |  |  | 16.8 |  |  |  | 5.1 |  |  |  | 12.3 |  |  |  | 34.2 |
Net current period other comprehensive income (loss) |  |  | (158.2 | ) |  |  | (23.9 | ) |  |  | 17.6 |  |  |  | (164.5 | )
Reclassification to retained earnings (1) |  |  | — |  |  |  | (54.5 | ) |  |  | (8.1 | ) |  |  | (62.6 | )
Balance at June 30, 2018 |  | $ | (477.0 | ) |  | $ | (463.9 | ) |  | $ | (49.3 | ) |  | $ | (990.2 | )
(1) | Reclassification is due to the adoption of ASU 2018-02 (see Footnote 1).
Schedule of Income Tax (Provision) Benefit Allocated to Components of OCI | The income tax (provision) benefit allocated to the components of other comprehensive income (loss) (“OCI”) for the periods indicated are as follows (in millions):
|  | Three months ended June 30, |  |  | Six months ended June 30, |
|  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
Foreign currency translation adjustments |  | $ | (8.4 | ) |  | $ | 2.9 |  |  | $ | (0.5 | ) |  | $ | 1.1 |
Unrecognized pension and postretirement costs |  |  | 4.0 |  |  |  | (1.4 | ) |  |  | 8.0 |  |  |  | (2.7 | )
Derivative financial instruments |  |  | (9.9 | ) |  |  | 2.2 |  |  |  | (10.0 | ) |  |  | 6.6 |
Income tax (provision) benefit related to OCI |  | $ | (14.3 | ) |  | $ | 3.7 |  |  | $ | (2.5 | ) |  | $ | 5.0 |

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