PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO 10-Q

ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK The Company operates manufacturing facilities and offices around the world and uses fixed and floating rate debt to finance the Company’s global operations. As a result, the Company is subject to business risks inherent in non-U.S. activities, including political and economic uncertainty, import and export limitations and market risk related to changes in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates. The Company believes that the political and economic risks related to the Company’s international operations are mitigated due to the geographic diversity in which the Company’s international operations are located. Effective July 1, 2018, Argentina was designated as a highly inflationary economy as the projected three-year cumulative inflation rate exceeded 100%. As such, beginning July 1, 2018, the functional currency for the Company’s Argentina subsidiary became the U.S. dollar. Revenue from operations in Argentina represented less than 1% of total consolidated net sales for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2023 and 2022. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had $0.6 million in assets related to foreign currency forward exchange contracts outstanding. The Company does not hold derivatives for trading purposes. The Company’s primary currency rate exposures are related to foreign denominated debt, intercompany debt, foreign denominated receivables and payables and cash and short-term investments. A hypothetical 10% change in currency rates would have an impact on fair values on such instruments of $6.7 million and a $0.1 million impact on income before income taxes at March 31, 2023. The Company is exposed to market risk, including changes in interest rates and foreign exchange rates since we conduct business in a variety of foreign currencies. The Company is subject to interest rate risk on its variable rate revolving credit facilities and term notes, which consisted of current and long-term borrowings of $85.2 million at March 31, 2023. A 100-basis point increase in the interest rate would have resulted in an increase in interest expense of approximately $0.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023.