[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 193 (Thursday, October 4, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 50693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-24821]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[NAFTA-4418 and TA-W-38,516]


Owens Brockway, Glass Container Division, Fulton, NY; Notice of 
Revised Determination on Reconsideration

    By letter of May 1, 2001, the Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & 
Allied Workers International Union requested administrative 
reconsideration of the Department's denial of North American Free Trade 
Agreement-Transitional Adjustment Assistance (NAFTA-TAA) and Trade 
Adjustment Assistance (TAA), applicable to workers of Owens Brockway, 
Glass Container Division, Fulton, New York. The notices were published 
in the Federal Register on May 2, 2001, NAFTA-4418 (66 FR 22007), and 
TA-W-38,516 (66 FR 22006).
    The workers were primarily engaged in the production of glass 
bottles.
    The workers were denied NAFTA-TAA on the basis that there was no 
shift in production to Mexico or Canada, nor were there company or 
customer imports of glass bottles from Mexico or Canada. The workers 
were denied TAA because the ``contributed importantly'' test of the 
Group Eligibility Requirements of the Trade Act was not met.
    The union request for reconsideration indicated that the subject 
plants' major customer imported glass bottles from South America and 
Mexico. Upon examination of 1999 and 2000 glass bottle import 
statistics, aggregate U.S. imports of glass bottles from Canada and 
Mexico increased significantly. The review further depicts a meaningful 
increase in aggregate U.S. imports of glass bottles during the relevant 
period.

Conclusion

    After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on 
reconsideration, it is concluded that the workers of Owens Brockway, 
Glass Container Division, Fulton, New York, were adversely affected by 
increased imports (including those from Canada and Mexico) of articles 
like or directly competitive with glass bottles produced at the subject 
firm.

    All workers of Owens Brockway, Glass Container Division, Fulton, 
New York, who became totally or partially separated from employment 
on or after December 1, 1999, through two years from the date of 
certification, are eligible to apply for NAFTA-TAA under Section 250 
of the Trade Act of 1974; and
    All workers of Owens Brockway, Glass Container Division, Fulton, 
New York, who became totally or partially separated from employment 
on or after December 1, 1999, through two years from the date of 
certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under 
Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 18th day of September 2001.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 01-24821 Filed 10-3-01; 8:45 am]
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