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Manitex International, Inc. – ‘10-K’ for 12/31/19 – ‘XML’

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 3/10/20  Manitex International, Inc.       10-K       12/31/19  156:23M                                    ActiveDisclosure/FA

Annual Report   —   Form 10-K   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

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                Parties                                                          
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84: R34         Discontinued Operations                             HTML     76K 
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67: R55         Equity (Tables)                                     HTML    485K 
127: R56         Transactions between the Company and Related        HTML    154K  
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151: R60         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies -        HTML    140K  
                Additional Information (Detail)                                  
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                Schedule of Useful Lives of Property and Equipment               
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                Additional Information - Credit Risk                             
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                Earnings Per Share (Detail)                                      
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                Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation                
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                Measures at Fair Value on Recurring Basis (Detail)               
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                Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis,                         
                Unobservable Input Reconciliation (Detail)                       
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                Currency Contracts and Interest Rate Swaps                       
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                Amounts of Derivative Instruments Reported in                    
                Consolidated Balance Sheets (Detail)                             
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                Intangible Assets (Detail)                                       
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                Additional Information - Note Payable-Winona                     
                Facility Purchase (Detail)                                       
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                Working Capital Borrowing (Detail)                               
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                Additional Information - PM Group Term Loans                     
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                Additional Information - Valla Short-Term Working                
                Capital Borrowings (Detail)                                      
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                Additional Information - Valla Term Loans (Detail)               
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                Schedule of Annual Maturities Of Debt Outstanding                
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154: R98         Leases - Schedule of Leases on Consolidated         HTML     64K  
                Balance Sheet (Detail)                                           
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138: R100        Leases - Summary of Other Information Related to    HTML     50K  
                Leases (Detail)                                                  
117: R101        Leases - Schedule of Future Principal Minimum       HTML    100K  
                Lease Payments (Detail)                                          
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                Financed Capital Leases-Equipment (Detail)                       
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75: R107        Income Taxes - Additional Information (Detail)      HTML    103K 
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                Before Income Taxes Varies from Current US Federal               
                Statutory Income Tax Rate (Detail)                               
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                Unrecognized Tax Benefits (Detail)                               
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34: R117        Equity - Additional Information - Tadano, Ltd       HTML     78K 
                Investment in Company (Detail)                                   
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                Shares Issued to Avis Industrial Corporation                     
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147: R119        Equity - Additional Information - At the Market     HTML     54K  
                Program (Detail)                                                 
79: R120        Equity - Summary of Stock Issued Under At the       HTML     75K 
                Market Program (Detail)                                          
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111: R122        Equity - Summary of Common Stock Repurchases        HTML     78K  
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                Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model for Stock                     
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                Parties - Additional Information (Detail)                        
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                Parties - Schedule of Accounts Receivable and                    
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                Parties - Related Party Transactions (Detail)                    
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                Parties - Related Party Transactions                             
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                Parties - Summary of Notes Payable to Related                    
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                Discontinued Operations (Detail)                                 
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                Discontinued Operations (Parenthetical) (Detail)                 
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