[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 74 (Wednesday, April 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 18954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-9343]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[NAFTA-5467]


Commercial Warehouse and Cartage, Inc., El Paso, Texas; Notice of 
Revised Determination on Reconsideration

    By application of January 25, 2002, the company, requested 
administrative reconsideration of the Department's denial regarding 
eligibility to Apply for North American Free Trade Agreement-
Transitional Adjustment Assistance (NAFTA-TAA), applicable to workers 
and former workers of the subject firm. The denial notice was issued on 
December 21, 2001 and published in the Federal Register on January 11, 
2002 (67 FR 1510).
    Workers were engaged in employment related to the production of 
surgical blankets. That worker group is separately identifiable from 
other functions performed at the subject plant.
    The workers were denied NAFTA-TAA on the basis that there was no 
shift in production to Mexico or Canada, nor did imports from Canada or 
Mexico contribute importantly to workers' separations.
    The company in their request for administrative reconsideration 
indicated that the subject plant production of surgical blankets was 
shifted to Mexico.
    Upon further clarification from the company, it became clear that 
the subject firm did not shift company production to Mexico. However, 
it became apparent that the subject firm's major customer who owned the 
machinery at the subject plant shifted production that was produced at 
the subject plant to an affiliated plant located in Juarez, Mexico. The 
customer was contacted and confirmed that the production of surgical 
blankets which was performed at the subject firm was in fact being 
produced at an affiliated facility plant located in Juarez, Mexico. 
That facility produced the same product (surgical blankets) as the 
subject firm prior to the closure of the subject firm and that the 
Mexican facility has been importing all production of surgical blankets 
to the United States to be sold to domestic and foreign customers. The 
customer further reported that they increased their reliance on 
imported surgical blankets from Mexico during the relevant period of 
the investigation.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the facts obtained in the investigation, I 
conclude that there was an increase in imports from Mexico of surgical 
blankets that are like or directly competitive with those produced by 
the subject firm. In accordance with the provisions of the Trade Act, I 
make the following certification:

    ``All workers of Commercial Warehouse and Cartage, Inc., El 
Paso, Texas engaged in activities related to the production of 
surgical blankets, who became totally or partially separated from 
employment on or after October 24, 2000, through two years from the 
date of certification, are eligible to apply for NAFTA-TAA under 
section 250 of the Trade Act of 1974.''

    Signed at Washington, DC this 29th day of March 2002.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 02-9343 Filed 4-16-02; 8:45 am]
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