[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 81 (Friday, April 25, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22433-22434]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-9103]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-62,661]


Agilent Technologies Measurement Systems Division, Loveland, CO; 
Notice of Affirmative Determination Regarding Application for 
Reconsideration

    By application dated April 11, 2008, a petitioner requested 
administrative reconsideration of the negative determination regarding 
workers' eligibility to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and 
Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance (ATAA) applicable to workers 
and former workers of the subject firm. The determination was issued on 
March 13, 2008. The Notice of determination was published in the 
Federal Register on March 26, 2008 (73 FR 16064).
    The determination was based on the Department's findings that 
workers separations at the subject firm were due to a shift in 
production of automated X-ray inspection system prototypes (including 
software code and hardware design functions) to Malaysia, a country 
that is not a party to a free trade agreement nor a beneficiary country 
with the United States. The subject firm did not import automated X-ray 
inspection system prototypes following the shift in production to a 
foreign source.
    The request for reconsideration alleges that Agilent Technologies 
might be in fact an importer of X-ray inspection systems and software. 
The petitioner also alleges that the customers of the subject firm also 
import X-ray inspection systems and software purchased directly from a 
production facility of Agilent Technologies in Malaysia.
    The Department has carefully reviewed the request for 
reconsideration and will further investigate whether imports of like or 
directly competitive

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products contributed importantly to workers separations at the subject 
firm.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the application, I conclude that the claim 
is of sufficient weight to justify reconsideration of the U.S. 
Department of Labor's prior decision. The application is, therefore, 
granted.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of April 2008.
 Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
 [FR Doc. E8-9103 Filed 4-24-08; 8:45 am]
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