[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56787-56788]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-2305]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-54,768]


Crystal Springs Apparel, LLC, Crystal Springs, Mississippi; 
Notice of Revised Determination on Reconsideration

    On July 27, 2004, the Department issued an Affirmative 
Determination Regarding Application on

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Reconsideration applicable to workers and former workers of the subject 
firm. The Notice was published in the Federal Register on August 10, 
2004 (69 FR 48526).
    On June 21, 2004, the Department initially denied TAA to workers of 
Crystal Springs Apparel, LLC, Crystal Springs, Mississippi because the 
workers performed administrative and warehousing activities and did not 
produce an article as defined by the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.
    In the request for reconsideration, the company official stated 
that the subject worker are not service workers. Rather, the subject 
worker group produces knit shirts and woven shirts (men's and ladies') 
and are not separately identifiable by product line.
    During the reconsideration investigation, the Department determined 
that the subject worker group are production workers and conducted an 
investigation to determine whether the workers are eligible to apply 
for trade adjustment assistance.
    The reconsideration investigation revealed that subject company 
sales, production, imports and employment levels declined in 2003 from 
2002 levels and declined during January-April 2004 from the 
corresponding time period in 2003.
    The Department also surveyed the subject company's major declining 
customers regarding their purchases of knit and woven shirts (men's and 
ladies') for time periods 2002, 2003, January-April 2003 and January-
April 2004. The survey revealed that major declining customers 
increased their imports of knit and woven shirts like and directly 
competitive with those produced at the subject company while decreasing 
their purchases from the subject company 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 knit and woven shirts produced at the subject 
firm contributed importantly to the declines in sales or production and 
to the total or partial separation of workers of Crystal Springs 
Apparel, LLC, Crystal Springs, Mississippi. In accordance with the 
provisions of the Act, I make the following certification:

``All workers of Crystal Springs Apparel, LLC, Crystal Springs, 
Mississippi who became totally or partially separated from 
employment on or after April 21, 2003 through two years of this 
certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under 
Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.''

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 10th day of September, 2004.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
 [FR Doc. E4-2305 Filed 9-21-04; 8:45 am]
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