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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

3. INCOME TAXES

Our effective tax rate decreased from 37.9% in the six months ended June 30, 2016 to 27.3% in the six months ended June 30, 2017. The decrease in the effective tax rate between the two periods is primarily attributable to a 6.3% effective rate reduction due to a greater mix of international revenues and a 3.2% effective rate reduction for a provision-to-return adjustment related to the assignment of research and development expenditures to specific company engineering locations.