[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 44 (Friday, March 5, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 10481]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-4980]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-40,417]


NTN-Bower Corporation, Hamilton, Alabama

Notice of Revised Determination on Remand

    The United States Court of International Trade (USCIT) granted the 
Secretary of Labor's motion for voluntary remand for further 
investigation of the negative determination in Former Employees of NTN-
Bower Corporation v. U.S. Secretary of Labor (Court No. 02-00315).
    The Department's initial denial of the petition for employees of 
NTN-Bower Corporation, Hamilton, Alabama was issued on March 27, 2002. 
The decision was published on April 5, 2002 in the Federal Register (67 
FR 16441). The denial was based on the fact that imports did not 
contribute importantly to worker separations at the subject firm. The 
petitioners did not request administrative reconsideration.
    By letter dated April 25, 2002 to the U.S. Court of International 
Trade, petitioners requested judicial review. The Department requested, 
and was granted, a voluntary remand. On October 3, 2002, the Department 
issued a Notice of Negative Determination on Remand. The Notice was 
published in the Federal Register on October 22, 2002 (67 FR 64919). 
The denial was based on the fact that the major customer did not import 
tapered roller bearings during the relevant time period.
    In the current voluntary remand investigation, the Department 
obtained new information and clarification from the company regarding 
the production process and company imports during the relevant time 
period.
    The new information revealed that earlier in the relevant time 
period, the subject company made bearing forgings (component parts 
stamped out of steel plates), finished the forgings, and assembled the 
forgings into bearings; later in the relevant time period, the subject 
company had replaced bearing forging production with imported 
unfinished forgings, and then finished and assembled the bearings at 
NTN-Bower, Hamilton, Alabama. The subject worker group produced 
bearings and component parts, and are not separately identifiable by 
product line.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on remand, I 
conclude that there were increased imports of articles like or directly 
competitive with those produced by the subject firm that contributed 
importantly to the worker separations and sales or production declines 
at the subject facility. In accordance with the provisions of the Trade 
Act, I make the following certification:

All workers of NTN-Bower Corporation, Hamilton, Alabama who became 
totally or partially separated from employment on or after October 
18, 2000, through two years from the issuance of this revised 
determination, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under 
section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.


    Signed at Washington, DC this 25th day of February, 2004.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 04-4980 Filed 3-4-04; 8:45 am]
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