[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 61 (Tuesday, March 31, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 15442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-8382]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-34,100]


L.A. Manufacturing, Incorporated, Livingston, Tennessee; Notice 
of Revised Determination on Reopening

    On January 20, 1998, the Department issued a Negative Determination 
Regarding Eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance, 
applicable to workers and former workers of L.A. Manufacturing, 
Incorporated, located in Livingston, Tennessee. The notice was 
published in the Federal Register on February 18, 1998 (63 FR 8210).
    By letter of February 11, 1998, the company requested 
administrative reconsideration regarding the Department's denial of 
trade adjustment assistance for workers of the subject firm. Based on 
new information provided by L.A. Manufacturing officials, the 
Department reopened the petition investigation.
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination 
based on the finding that the ``contributed importantly'' test of the 
Group Eligibility Requirements of the Trade Act was not met for workers 
at the subject firm. The workers produce ladies' and men's denim jeans.
    Sales and employment at L.A. Manufacturing declined from 1995 to 
1996.
    On reopening, a review of United States imports of men's trousers, 
slacks, jeans and pants, reveals that imports increased absolutely and 
relative to domestic shipments from 1995 to 1996 and in the twelve 
months through September 1997 compared to the twelve months through 
September 1996. The ratio of imports to domestic shipments (I./S.) was 
more than 100 percent in the twelve months ending September 1997.
    United States imports of women's and girls' slacks and shorts 
increased absolutely and relative to domestic shipments from 1995 to 
1996; the I./S. ratio was more than 100 percent. Imports continued to 
increase in the twelve months through September 1997 compared to the 
same time period a year earlier; the I./S. ration is not available but 
is estimated to be more than 100 percent.

Conclusion

    After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on reopening, 
it is concluded that increased imports of articles like or directly 
competitive with jeans produced by the subject firm contributed 
importantly to the decline in sales and to the total or partial 
separation of workers of the subject firm. In accordance with the 
provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, I make the following revised 
determination:

    All workers of L.A. Manufacturing, Incorporated, Livingston, 
Tennessee, who became totally or partially separated from employment 
on or after December 5, 1996, are eligible to apply for adjustment 
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

    Signed in Washington, DC this 20th day of March 1998.
Grant D. Beale,
Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 98-8382 Filed 12-23-97; 8:45 am]
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