[Federal Register: November 23, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 225)]
[Notices]               
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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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