[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 96 (Friday, May 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 35146]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-12401]



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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-36,804]


Key Manufacturing Company, Inc. Jasper, AL; Notice of Negative 
Determination on Remand

    The United States Court of International Trade (USCIT) granted the 
Secretary of Labor's motion for a voluntary remand for further 
investigation in Former Employees of Key Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. 
Alexis Herman, United States Secretary of Labor, No. 00-02-00084.
    The Department's initial denial of Trade Adjustment Assistance 
(TAA) for the workers producing wooden furniture components at Key 
Manufacturing Company, Inc., was based on the finding that criterion 
(3) of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the Trade 
Act of 1974, as amended, was not met. The decision was signed on 
September 30, 1999, and published in the Federal Register on November 
4, 1999 (64 FR 60230).
    The petitioners request for reconsideration of the Department's 
negative determination for TA-W-36,804, resulted in a Dismissal on 
Application for Reconsideration, since the application contained no new 
information which would bear importantly of the Department's 
determination. The dismissal was issued on January 5, 2000 and 
published in the Federal Register on March 31, 2000 (65 FR 17318).
    On remand, the Department contacted the customer(s) of Key 
Manufacturing Company, Inc., Jasper, Alabama identified by the 
petitioner to be importing turned furniture parts. The petitioner 
claims that the customers increased their imports of turned furniture 
parts.
    On remand, the survey indicated that none of the respondents 
increased their imports of turned furniture parts during the relevant 
period.
    Two of the survey respondents reported that they purchased turned 
furniture parts from other domestic vendors immediately after the 
closure of the subject plant during late April 1999. They also reported 
that they began to import during the January/February 2000 period, well 
beyond the relevant period.
    The third customer, based on data supplied by the petitioner, did 
not import turnings. The customer purchased all their turnings from the 
subject firm, changed their product line, which eliminated the need for 
turnings. That customer attributed their declines in purchases from the 
subject firm to increased imports of furniture. The import of furniture 
is not relevant to the products ``like or directly competitive'' with 
turned furniture parts produced by the subject firm.

Conclusion

    After reconsideration on remand, I affirm the original notice of 
negative determination of eligibility to apply for adjustment 
assistance for workers and former workers of Key Manufacturing Co. 
Inc., Jasper, Alabama.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 24th day of April 2002.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 02-12401 Filed 5-16-02; 8:45 am]
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