[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6698-6699]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-247]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-52,770]


Tower Mills, Inc., Burlington, NC; Notice of Revised 
Determination on Reconsideration

    By application of December 12, 2003, a petitioner 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 November 3, 2003, based on the finding that imports of 
hosiery, spandex tights, pantyhose and trouser socks did not contribute 
importantly to worker separations at the subject plant and no shift of 
production to a foreign source

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occurred. The denial notice was published in the Federal Register on 
November 28, 2003 (68 FR 66878).
    To support the request for reconsideration, the company official 
supplied additional major declining customers to supplement those that 
were surveyed during the initial investigation. Upon further review and 
contact with these customers of the subject firm, it was revealed that 
they increased their import purchases of socks and hosiery during the 
relevant period. The imports accounted for a meaningful portion of the 
subject plant's lost sales and production.
    It was further revealed that U.S. aggregate imports of socks and 
hosiery increased significantly during the relevant period.

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 Tower Mills, Inc., 
Burlington, North Carolina, contributed importantly to the declines in 
sales or production and to the total or partial separation of workers 
at the subject firm. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, I 
make the following certification:

    All workers of Tower Mills, Inc., Burlington, North Carolina, 
who became totally or partially separated from employment on or 
after August 27, 2002, 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 31st day of January, 2004.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. E4-247 Filed 02-10-04; 8:45 am]
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