[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 8634]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-4289]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[NAFTA-6018]


Johnson Controls International, Fullerton, CA; Notice of Revised 
Determination on Reconsideration

    By letter of August 20, 2002, the International Union, United 
Automobile, Aerospace & Agriculture Implement Workers of America (UAW), 
requested administrative reconsideration of the Department's denial of 
North American Free Trade Agreement-Transitional Adjustment Assistance 
(NAFTA-TAA), applicable to workers of Johnson Controls International, 
Fullerton, California. The denial notice was published in the Federal 
Register on July 22, 2002 (67 FR 47862).
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination 
issued on July 9, 2002, based on the finding that there was no shift in 
production to Canada or Mexico and imports of automotive batteries from 
Canada and Mexico did not contribute importantly to worker separations 
at the Fullerton plant.
    To support the request for reconsideration, the union provided 
additional information, which was not provided during the initial 
investigation. The union official indicated that the company had 
entered into a joint venture with another company that had production 
capacity in Mexico. As a result of this partnership, Johnson Controls 
had replaced batteries produced at the subject firm with Mexican 
production.
    Upon further review and contact with a company official, it was 
revealed that the company replaced their domestic production of dry 
automotive batteries with dry automotive batteries from the affiliated 
Mexican plant, leading to layoffs at the subject firm.

Conclusion

    After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on 
reconsideration, it is concluded that increased imports from Mexico of 
dry automotive batteries contributed importantly to the decline in 
production and to the total or partial separation of workers at the 
subject firm. In accordance with the provisions of the Trade Act, I 
make the following certification:

    ``All workers of Johnson Controls International, Fullerton, 
California, who became totally or partially separated from 
employment on or after March 27, 2001, through two years from the 
date of this certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment 
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.''

    Signed in Washington, DC this 10th day of February 2003.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-4289 Filed 2-21-03; 8:45 am]
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