[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 85 (Thursday, May 2, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 22121]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10892]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[NAFTA-5218 and TA-W-39,831, TA-W-39,831A]


Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia, Chipman Union, Inc., 
Bryan Scott Plant, Greensboro, GA; Notice of Revised Determination on 
Reconsideration

    By letter dated January 16, 2002, the company, 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 Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia. The denial notice 
applicable to NAFTA-05218 was signed on December 17, 2001 and the 
denial notices for TA-W-39,831 and TA-W-39,831A were signed on December 
14, 2001. The notices were published in the Federal Register on January 
11, 2002, NAFTA-5218 (67 FR 1513); for TA-W-39,831 and TA-W-39,831A (67 
FR 1508).
    The workers of Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia (NAFTA-
5218) engaged in activities related to the production of socks were 
denied NAFTA-TAA because criteria (3) and (4) of the group eligibility 
requirements of paragraph (a)(1) of section 250 of the Trade Act of 
1974, as amended, were not met. A survey of customers indicated that 
increased imports from Canada and Mexico did not contribute importantly 
to worker separations. The subject firm did not import socks from 
Canada or Mexico during the relevant period. There was no shift in the 
production of socks from the subject firm to Canada or Mexico during 
the relevant period.
    The workers of Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia (TA-W-39-
831) and Chipman Union, Inc., Bryan Scott Plant, Greensboro, Georgia 
(TA-W-39-831A) were denied TAA because criterion (3) of the group 
eligibility requirements of section 222 of the Trade Act of 1974, as 
amended, was not met. Imports did not contribute importantly to the 
worker separations during the relevant period.
    The request for reconsideration indicates that the company lost a 
license agreement, which accounted for a major portion of their sales. 
The request further indicated that the company that was awarded the new 
license, imported the socks.
    The Department contacted the company which was awarded the new 
license agreement and confirmed that the company that was awarded the 
license began importing the socks from Canada to the subject firm's 
domestic customers during the relevant period.

Conclusion

    After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on 
reconsideration, it is concluded that increased imports of socks, 
including imports from Canada, contributed importantly to the decline 
in production and to the total or partial separation of workers at 
Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia (NAFTA-5218) and Chipman 
Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia (TA-W-39,831) and Chipman Union, 
Inc., Bryan Scott Plant, Greensboro, Georgia (TA-W-39,831A). In 
accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make the following revised 
determination:

    ``All workers at Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia 
(NAFTA-5218), who became totally or partially separated from 
employment on or after August 16, 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;'' and
    ``All workers at Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia (TA-
W-39,831) and Chipman Union, Inc., Bryan Scott Plant, Greensboro, 
Georgia (TA-W-39,831A), who became totally or partially separated 
from employment on or after August 6, 2000, 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 4th day of April, 2002.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 02-10892 Filed 5-1-02; 8:45 am]
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