[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 96 (Friday, May 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35157-35158]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-12405]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[NAFTA-5397]


Connolly North America, El Paso, TX; Negative Finding Regarding 
Qualification as a Secondary Firm Pursuant to the Statement of 
Administrative Action Accompanying the North American Free Trade 
Agreement (NAFTA) Implementation Act

    The Department of labor hererin presents the results of an 
investigation regarding qualification as a secondarily impacted firm, 
pursuant to the Statement of Administrative Action accompanying the 
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Implementation Act.
    The workers of Connolly North America, El Paso, Texas were denied 
eligibility to apply for NAFTA-TAA (NAFTA-5397). Pursuant to that 
determination, an investigation was conducted in order to determine 
whether the workers qualify as secondarily impacted as suppliers to or 
finishers or processors for a firm primarily affected by increased 
imports from or a shift in production to Mexico or Canada.
    In order for an affirmative finding to be made, the following 
requirements must be met:
    (1) The subject firm must be a supplier of a firm that is directly 
affected by imports from Mexico or Canada or shifts in production to 
those countries; or
    (2) The subject firm must assemble or finish products made by a 
directly-impacted firm; and
    (3) The loss of business with the directly-affected firm must have 
contributed importantly to worker separations at the subject firm.
    The investigation revealed that criteria (1) and (2) have not been 
met.
    The petitioners assert that a major customer switched their 
purchases of leather and leather products from the subject firm in 
favor of producing the leather and leather products at the customer's 
affiliated location in Mexico.
    The subject firm workers were engaged in activities related to

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production to leather and leather products (used by the automotive 
industry, i.e., seating components). The investigation found that the 
customer has not been certified under NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment 
Assistance and therefore is not a directly-impacted firm.
    Based on this evidence, I determine that with respect to workers of 
Connolly North America, El Paso, Texas, such workers do not qualify as 
secondarily affected pursuant to the Statement of Administrative Action 
accompanying the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation 
Act.
    For further information on assistance under Title I of the 
Workforce Investment Act which may be available to workers included 
under this determination, contact: Ms. Barbara Cigainero, Director, 
Workforce Development, Texas Workforce Commission, 101 E. 15th Street, 
Austin, Texas 78778-001, Phone: (512) 463-7747, FAX: (512) 463-2799, E-
Mail: [email protected]

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 15th day of April 2002.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 02-12405 Filed 5-6-02; 8:45 am]
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