[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 87 (Thursday, May 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 25948]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-11119]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

NAFTA-3369


Superior--Essex, Pauline, KS; Notice of Negative Determination on 
Reconsideration

    On March 20, 2000, the Department issued an Affirmative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration for the workers 
and former workers of the subject firm. United Steelworkers of America 
stated that the production of copper rod was shifted from the Pauline, 
Kansas plant of Superior-Essex to Mexico. The notice was published in 
the Federal Register on March 27, 2000 (65 FR 16227).
    The Department initially denied NAFTA-TAA to workers producing 
copper building wire at Superior-Essex, Pauline, Kansas based on the 
finding that criteria (3) and (4) of the group eligibility requriements 
of paragraph (a)(1) of Section 250 of the Trade Act, as amended, were 
not met. The subject firm did not increase imports of like products 
from Canada or Mexico, nor did it shift production to Canada or Mexico.
    New information obtained on reconsideration regarding the 
production of copper rod at the subject plant show that prior to the 
plant closure, sales and production of copper rod increased from 1998 
to 1999. Superior--Essex did not import copper rod form Mexico or 
Canada, nor did it shift production from Pauline, Kansas to those 
countries. The copper rod produced by workers at the Superior-Essex, 
Pauline, Kansas, is being transferred to other domestic plants of the 
subject firm.

Conclusion

    After reconsideration, I affirm the original notice of negative 
determination of eligibility to apply for NAFTA-TAA for workers and 
former workers of Superior--Essex, Pauline, Kansas.

    Signed at Washington, D.C., this 20th day of April 2000.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 00-11119 Filed 5-3-00; 8:45 am]
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