Comprehensive income	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
Equity [Abstract]
Comprehensive Income	12. Total comprehensive income includes, in addition to net income, changes in equity that are excluded from the condensed consolidated statements of operations and are recorded directly into a separate section of stockholders’ equity on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. For the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, total comprehensive income consisted of net income attributable to American Vanguard and foreign currency translation adjustments.

The entire disclosure for comprehensive income, which includes, but is not limited to, 1) the amount of income tax expense or benefit allocated to each component of other comprehensive income, including reclassification adjustments, 2) the reclassification adjustments for each classification of other comprehensive income and 3) the ending accumulated balances for each component of comprehensive income.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 220
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134417

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