[Federal Register: July 21, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 140)]
[Notices]
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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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