[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 118 (Thursday, June 19, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 36854]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-15473]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-50,360]


Ocean State Finishing Company, Woonsocket, RI; Notice of Revised 
Determination on Reconsideration

    By application of April 17, 2003, a petitioner requested 
administrative reconsideration of the Department's negative 
determination regarding eligibility for workers and former workers of 
the subject firm to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination 
issued on March 17, 2003, based on the finding that imports of dyed and 
finished circular knit fabrics for the women's apparel industry did not 
contribute importantly to worker separations at the Woonsocket plant. 
The denial notice was published in the Federal Register on April 2, 
2003 (68 FR 16093).
    To support the request for reconsideration, the petitioner provided 
additional information to supplement that which was gathered during the 
initial investigation. Upon further review and contact with the 
company, evidence revealed that R.G. Knitting Mills, Inc., Woonsocket, 
Rhode Island, to whom the petitioning workers' firm or subdivision acts 
as a downstream producer, employed a group of workers who received a 
certification of eligibility for trade adjustment assistance based on 
an increase in imports from, or a shift in production to, Canada or 
Mexico, and the downstream production is related to the article that 
was the basis for such certification. R.G. Knitting Mills, Inc., 
Woonsocket, Rhode Island was affected by imports from Canada and Mexico 
while reducing purchases of dyed and finished circular knit fabrics for 
the women's apparel industry from the petitioning workers' firm or 
subdivision. The subject firm's employment declined, in part, because 
of the imports. Workers of R.G. Knitting Mills, Inc., Woonsocket, Rhode 
Island were certified as eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment 
Assistance on May 16, 2002 (TA-W-41,109).

Conclusion

    After careful review of the facts obtained in the investigation, I 
determine that workers of Ocean State Finishing Company, Woonsocket, 
Rhode Island qualify as adversely affected secondary workers under 
Section 222(b) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended. In accordance with 
the provisions of the Act, I make the following certification:

    All workers of Ocean State Finishing Company, Woonsocket, Rhode 
Island who became totally or partially separated from employment on 
or after December 2, 2001, 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 3rd day of June 2003.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-15473 Filed 6-18-03; 8:45 am]
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