[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 161 (Wednesday, August 20, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50195-50196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-21282]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-50,544]


Firestone Tube Company, Russellville, AR; Notice of Revised 
Determination on Reopening

    On May 15, 2003, the Department, on its own motion, reopened its 
investigation for the former workers of the subject firm.
    The initial investigation was initiated on January 13, 2003, and 
resulted in a negative determination issued on March 7, 2003. The 
investigation findings showed that increases in imports of rubber inner 
tubes produced by Firestone Tube Company in Russellville, Arkansas, did 
not contribute importantly to the employment, sales or production 
declines at that firm. Furthermore, the firm did not shift production 
of rubber inner tubes from the plant to a foreign country from 2000 
through September 2002. The denial notice was published in the Federal 
Register on March 26, 2003 (68 FR 14706).
    The Department has obtained new information showing that the 
increases in company imports of inner tubes were like or directly 
competitive with those that could have been produced at the 
Russellville, Arkansas plant, had the machinery used to produced them 
not been shipped out of the plant during the final quarter of 2002. The 
workers are not separately identifiable by product line at the plant.

Conclusion

    After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on reopening, 
it is concluded that increased imports of articles like or directly 
competitive with inner tubes produced by Firestone Tube Company, 
Russellville, Arkansas, contributed importantly to the decline in sales 
or production and to the total or partial separation of workers of the 
subject firm.
    In accordance with the provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, I make 
the following revised determination:

    All workers of Firestone Tube Company, Russellville, Arkansas, 
who became totally or partially separated from employment on or 
after January 7, 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.


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    Signed in Washington, DC, this 30th day of July 2003.
Linda G. Poole,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-21282 Filed 8-19-03; 8:45 am]
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