[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 135 (Tuesday, July 15, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41846-41847]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-17830]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-51,388]


Solid State-Filtronic Incorporated, Compound Semiconductor, Santa 
Clara, CA; Notice of Revised Determination On Reconsideration

    By letter of May 25, 2003, petitioners requested administrative 
reconsideration of the Department's

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denial of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), applicable to workers of 
Solid State-Filtronics, Compound Semiconductors, Santa Clara, 
California.
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination 
issued on May 6, 2003, based on the finding that imports of wafers used 
in the company's vertically integrated manufacturing of field effect 
transistors and monolithic microwave integrated circuits did not 
contribute importantly to worker separations and there was no shift in 
production to a country that is party to a Free Trade Agreement, or a 
Beneficiary Country under the Andean Trade Preference Act, the African 
Growth and Opportunity Act, or the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery 
Act. The notice was published in the Federal Register on May 19, 2003 
(68 FR 27107).
    In their request for reconsideration, the petitioners supplied 
information concerning global competition regarding wafers used in the 
company's vertically integrated manufacturing of field effect 
transistors and monolithic microwave integrated circuits.
    An examination of United States trade data for like or directly 
competitive products revealed that from 2001 to 2002, aggregate U.S. 
imports increased dramatically.

Conclusion

    After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on 
reconsideration, it is concluded that the workers of Solid State-
Filtronics, Compound Semiconductors, Santa Clara, California, were 
adversely affected by increased imports of articles like or directly 
competitive with wafers produced at the subject firm. In accordance 
with the provisions of the Act, I make the following certification:

``All workers of Solid State-Filtronics, Compound Semiconductors, 
Santa Clara, California, who became totally or partially separated 
from employment on or after March 27, 2002, 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 1st day of July 2003.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-17830 Filed 7-14-03; 8:45 am]
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