[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 214 (Wednesday, November 5, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 59884]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29222]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-32,949; TA-W-32,950]
Barclay Home Products; Cherokee, North Carolina and Robbinsville,
North Carolina; Notice of Revised Determination on Reconsideration
On June 13, 1997, the Department issued an Affirmative
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration, applicable to
workers and former workers of Barclay Home Products located in Cherokee
and Robbinsville, North Carolina. The notice was published in the
Federal Register on June 27, 1997 (62 FR 34712).
The petitioner presented evidence that the Department's survey of
the subject firm's customers was incomplete.
The initial determination reported that the workers at the subject
firm produced quilted comforters. New information provided to the
Department on reconsideration reveals that the workers at the subject
firm plants in Cherokee and Robbinsville, North Carolina were also
producing quilts and quilt ensembles. The workers producing quilted
comforters, quilts and quilt ensembles are not separately identifiable
by product.
New information provided by the subject firm show that sales and
production of quilts and quilt ensembles declined during the time
period relevant to the investigation. Employment declined to zero when
the subject firm plants closed in December 1996.
The quantity of aggregate U.S. imports of quilts increased from
1995 to 1996 and in the twelve month time period of July through June
1997 compared to the same twelve month time period of 1996. The value
of aggregate U.S. imports of quilts declined from 1995 to 1996, but
increased in the twelve month time period of July through June 1997
compared to the same twelve month time period of 1996.
On reconsideration, the Department conducted a survey of the
subject firm's major declining customers. Survey findings show that
from 1995 to 1996, a major customer stopped purchasing quilts and quilt
ensembles from Barclay Home Products in favor of increased purchases of
quilts and quilt ensembles from other domestic sources that were wholly
manufactured in other foreign countries.
Conclusion
After careful review of the additional facts obtained on
reconsideration, I conclude that increased imports of articles like or
directly competitive with quilts and quilt ensembles contributed
importantly to the declines in sales or production and to the total or
partial separation of workers of Barclay Home Products, Cherokee and
Robbinsville, North Carolina.
In accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make the following
certification:
All workers of Barclay Home Products, Cherokee, North Carolina
(TA-W-32,949) and Robbinsville, North Carolina (TA-W-32,950), who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or after
November 7, 1995, are eligible to apply for worker adjustment
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 16th day of October 1997.
Grant D. Beale,
Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 97-29222 Filed 11-4-97; 8:45 am]
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