[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 79 (Thursday, April 24, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20181-20182]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-10136]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-50,312]


Intertape Polymer Group, Menasha Division, Menasha, WI; Notice of 
Revised Determination on Reconsideration

    By application of February 20, 2003, the company and the Paper, 
Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union 
(PACE) Local 7-0727 requested administrative reconsideration regarding 
the Department's Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility to Apply 
for Worker Adjustment Assistance, applicable to the workers of the 
subject firm.
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination 
issued on October 11, 2002, based on the finding that imports of water 
activated sealing tape did not contribute importantly to worker 
separations at the subject firm plant. The denial notice was published 
in the Federal Register on February 6, 2003 (68 FR 6210).
    To support the request for reconsideration, the company supplied 
additional information to supplement that which was gathered during the 
initial investigation. Upon further review, it was revealed that the 
company produced several types of ``carton sealing tape,'' including 
water activated tape. Increased reliance on company imports of pressure 
sensitive tape, a type of carton sealing tape, was originally revealed 
in an investigation of a subject firm affiliate: specifically, 
Intertape Polymer Group, Central Products Company, Richmond, Kentucky 
(TA-W-40,783). As a result of this discovery, the Department has 
determined that the company's increased reliance on imports of pressure 
sensitive tape (``like or directly competitive'' with what the subject 
plant produced) may be established as replacing subject firm 
production, thus contributing to the layoffs at the subject plant.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on 
reconsideration, I conclude that increased imports of articles like or 
directly competitive with those produced at Intertape Polymer Group, 
Menasha Division, Menasha, Wisconsin, contributed importantly to the 
declines in sales or production and to the total or partial separation 
of workers at the subject firm. In

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accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make the following 
certification:

    All workers of Intertape Polymer Group, Menasha Division, 
Menasha, Wisconsin, who became totally or partially separated from 
employment on or after December 9, 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 14th day of April 2003.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-10136 Filed 4-23-03; 8:45 am]
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