[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 13, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8371-8372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-2622]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-62,184; TA-W-62,184A]


Mark Eyelet, Inc., Including On-Site Leased Workers of Jaci 
Carroll Staffing, Watertown, CT; Ozzi II, Inc., (DBA OC Eyelet), 
Including On-Site Leased Workers of Watertown, CT; Notice of Negative 
Determination on Reconsideration

    On January 7, 2007, the Department issued an Affirmative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration for the workers 
and former workers of the subject firm. The notice was published in the 
Federal Register on January 16, 2008 (73 FR 2941).
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination 
based on the finding that imports of eyelet parts and miniature 
stamping did not contribute importantly to worker separations at the 
subject firm and no shift of production to a foreign source occurred.
    The company official of the subject firm filed a request for 
reconsideration and provided a list of customers which allegedly are 
importing products.
    On reconsideration the Department of Labor surveyed these declining 
customers regarding their purchases of like or directly competitive 
products with eyelet parts and miniature stampings purchased from the 
subject firm in 2005, 2006, and during January through September 2007 
over the corresponding 2006 period. The survey revealed that the 
customers did not import eyelet parts and miniature stampings during 
the relevant period.
    The petitioner also stated that the subject firm did not shift 
production of eyelet parts and miniature stamping abroad, but the 
customers of the subject firm shifted production of automotive and 
electronic parts production to China, thus negatively impacting 
production at the subject firm.
    The fact that subject firm's customers are shifting their 
production abroad is not relevant to this investigation. According to 
section (a)(2)(B) of the

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Trade Act, in order to be eligible for TAA on the basis of a shift in 
production abroad, the shift in production must be implemented by the 
subject firm or its subdivision.
    In this case, the subject firm did not import eyelet parts and 
miniature stampings nor was there a shift in production from subject 
firm abroad during the relevant period.

Conclusion

    After reconsideration, I affirm the original notice of negative 
determination of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance 
for workers and former workers of Mark Eyelet, Inc., including on-site 
leased workers of Jaci Carroll Staffing Watertown, Connecticut (TA-W-
62,184) and Ozzi II, Inc., (dba OC Eyelet), including on-site leased 
workers of Jaci Carroll Staffing, Watertown, Connecticut (TA-W-
62,184A).

    Signed at Washington, DC this 6th day of February, 2008.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
 [FR Doc. E8-2622 Filed 2-12-08; 8:45 am]
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