[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65726-65727]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30460]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-36,471 and NAFTA-3084]
Fort James Corporation Packaging Division Portland, OR; Notice of
Revised Determination on Reconsideration
By letter of August 13, 1999, the petitioner requested
administrative reconsideration of the Department's negative
determinations for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and North American
Free Trade Agreement-Transitional Adjustment Assistance (NAFTA-TAA) for
the workers and former workers of the subject firm.
Workers of the subject firm are engaged in employment related to
the production of paper food packaging, primarily frozen food
packaging.
On July 30, 1999, the workers were denied TAA because the
``contributed importantly'' test of Section 222(3) of the Group
Eligibility Requirements of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, was not
met. A survey of the subject firm's major customers revealed that none
of the customers increased import purchases of food packaging while
reducing purchases from the subject firm.
On that same date, the same worker group was denied eligibility to
apply for NAFTA-TAA based on the finding that criteria (3) and (4) of
the worker group eligibility requirements of paragraph (a)(1) of
Section 250 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended were not met. There
was no shift in production from the worker's firm to Mexico or Canada.
Other investigation findings showed that there were no company or
customer imports of food packaging from Mexico or Canada.
The Department has obtained new information from one of the subject
firm's major declining customers showing increased import purchases of
frozen food packaging from Canada while reducing purchases from Fort
James.
Conclusion
After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on
reconsideration, it is concluded that workers of Fort James
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Corporation, Packaging Division, Portland, Oregon, were adversely
affected by increased imports from Canada of articles like or directly
competitive with paper food packaging like or directly competitive with
the articles produced at the subject firm.
All workers of Fort James Corporation, Packaging Division,
Portland, Oregon, separated from employment on or after June 10,
1998 through two years from the issuance of this certification, are
eligible to apply for worker adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974, and
All workers of Fort James Corporation, Packaging Division,
Portland, Oregon, separated from employment on or after April 5,
1998 through two years from the issuance of this certification, are
eligible to apply for NAFTA-TAA under Section 250 of the Trade Act
of 1974.
Signed at Washington, D.C. this 15th day of November 1999.
Grant D. Beale,
Program Manager, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 99-30460 Filed 11-22-99; 8:45 am]
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