[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 140 (Monday, July 21, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 42372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-16567]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-63,019]


Honeywell Aerospace Aerospace--Defense & Space Division 
Teterboro, NJ; Notice of Negative Determination on Reconsideration

    On June 16, 2008, 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 June 25, 2008 (73 FR 36119).
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination 
based on the finding that imports of displays, processors, flight 
controls, software, and test equipment did not contribute importantly 
to worker separations at the subject firm and no shift of production to 
a foreign source occurred.
    The United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers 
of America, Local 153 filed a request for reconsideration and alleged 
that Honeywell is ``closing the Teterboro facility and opening a 
facility in Mexicali, Mexico.''
    The Department of Labor contacted a company official to address the 
allegation that production was shifted from the subject firm to Mexico. 
The company official confirmed that Honeywell International has a 
production facility in Mexicali, Mexico. However, it was revealed that 
the facility in Mexicali does not manufacture articles like or directly 
competitive with products manufactured at the subject facility. The 
company official stated that although some production has been shifted 
by Honeywell from the United States to foreign locations, the articles 
shifted are not like or directly competitive with the articles 
manufactured by Aerospace--Defense & Space Division in Teterboro, New 
Jersey. The official stated that Honeywell Aerospace did not shift 
production of defense avionics, flight controls, test equipment and 
displays from the Teterboro facility to any overseas locations. 
Furthermore, the official stated that the subject firm is ceasing 
production since Honeywell ``made a business decision to sell the 
Teterboro property'' and ``consolidate the work into other U.S. 
locations.'' Therefore, the worker separations at the subject firm are 
the result of production being shifted from the subject facility to 
other domestic locations.
    The petitioner also alleged that the subject firm would cease its 
production as a direct result of Honeywell importing products from the 
facility in Mexico to the United States.
    The company official stated that Honeywell Aerospace did not import 
products like or directly competitive with defense avionics, flight 
controls, test equipment manufactured at the subject facility.

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 Honeywell Aerospace, Aerospace--
Defense & Space Division, Teterboro, New Jersey.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 15th day of July 2008.
 Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. E8-16567 Filed 7-18-08; 8:45 am]
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