Bespak, Inc. Tenax Corporation, Apex, N.C.; Amended Certification Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance and Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance, 5071 [E6-1179]
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Secretary of Commerce on January 25,
2006. The views of the Commission are
contained in USITC Publication 3831
(December 2005), entitled Internal
Combustion Industrial Forklift Trucks
from Japan: Investigation No. 731–TA–
377 (Second Review).
By order of the Commission.
Issued: January 26, 2006.
Marilyn R. Abbott,
Secretary to the Commission.
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eligible to apply for alternative trade
adjustment assistance under section 246 of
the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of
January 2006.
Linda G. Poole,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade
Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. E6–1179 Filed 1–30–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Notice of Determinations Regarding
Eligibility To Apply for Worker
Adjustment Assistance
Employment and Training
Administration
[TA–W–58,215]
Bespak, Inc. Tenax Corporation, Apex,
N.C.; Amended Certification Regarding
Eligibility To Apply for Worker
Adjustment Assistance and Alternative
Trade Adjustment Assistance
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In accordance with section 223 of the
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2273), and
section 246 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended, the Department of Labor
issued a Certification of Eligibility to
Apply for Worker Adjustment
Assistance and Alternative Trade
Adjustment Assistance on December 2,
2005, applicable to workers of Bespak,
Inc., Apex, North Carolina. The notice
was published in the Federal Register
on December 21, 2005 (70 FR 75841).
At the request of a former employee,
the Department reviewed the
certification for workers of the subject
firm. The workers produce drug
delivery devices (inhalers, bags, pumps,
I.V. lines, and syringes).
The company official provided
information to the Department
confirming that the workers wages at the
subject firm are reported under the
Unemployment Insurance tax account
for Tenax Corporation, which is a
member of the Bespak Group.
Based on this new information, the
Department is amending the
certification to include workers of
Bespak, Inc., Apex, North Carolina,
whose wages are reported to Tenax
Corporation.
The amended notice applicable to
TA–W–58,215 is hereby issued as
follows:
All workers of Bespak, Inc., Tenax
Corporation, Apex, North Carolina, who
became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after October 25, 2004,
through December 2, 2007, are eligible to
apply for adjustment assistance under section
223 of the Trade Act of 1974, and are also
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In accordance with section 223 of the
Trade Act of 1974, as amended, (19
U.S.C. 2273), the Department of Labor
herein presents summaries of
determinations regarding eligibility to
apply for trade adjustment assistance for
workers (TA–W) number and alternative
trade adjustment assistance (ATAA) by
(TA–W) number issued during the
periods of January 2006.
In order for an affirmative
determination to be made and a
certification of eligibility to apply for
directly-impacted (primary) worker
adjustment assistance to be issued, each
of the group eligibility requirements of
section 222(a) of the Act must be met.
I. Section (a)(2)(A) all of the following
must be satisfied:
A. A significant number or proportion
of the workers in such workers’ firm, or
an appropriate subdivision of the firm,
have become totally or partially
separated, or are threatened to become
totally or partially separated;
B. The sales or production, or both, of
such firm or subdivision have decreased
absolutely; and
C. Increased imports of articles like or
directly competitive with articles
produced by such firm or subdivision
have contributed importantly to such
workers’ separation or threat of
separation and to the decline in sales or
production of such firm or subdivision;
or
II. Section (a)(2)(B) both of the
following must be satisfied:
A. A significant number or proportion
of the workers in such workers’ firm, or
an appropriate subdivision of the firm,
have become totally or partially
separated, or are threatened to become
totally or partially separated;
B. There has been a shift in
production by such workers’ firm or
subdivision to a foreign country of
articles like or directly competitive with
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articles which are produced by such
firm or subdivision; and
C. One of the following must be
satisfied:
1. The country to which the workers’
firm has shifted production of the
articles is a party to a free trade
agreement with the United States;
2. The country to which the workers’
firm has shifted production of the
articles to a beneficiary country under
the Andean Trade Preference Act,
African Growth and Opportunity Act, or
the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery
Act; or
3. There has been or is likely to be an
increase in imports of articles that are
like or directly competitive with articles
which are or were produced by such
firm or subdivision.
Also, in order for an affirmative
determination to be made and a
certification of eligibility to apply for
worker adjustment assistance as an
adversely affected secondary group to be
issued, each of the group eligibility
requirements of section 222(b) of the
Act must be met.
(1) Significant number or proportion
of the workers in the workers’ firm or
an appropriate subdivision of the firm
have become totally or partially
separated, or are threatened to become
totally or partially separated;
(2) The workers’ firm (or subdivision)
is a supplier or downstream producer to
a firm (or subdivision) that employed a
group of workers who received a
certification of eligibility to apply for
trade adjustment assistance benefits and
such supply or production is related to
the article that was the basis for such
certification; and
(3) Either:
(A) The workers’ firm is a supplier
and the component parts it supplied for
the firm (or subdivision) described in
paragraph (2) accounted for at least 20
percent of the production or sales of the
workers’ firm; or
(B) A loss or business by the workers’
firm with the firm (or subdivision)
described in paragraph (2) contributed
importantly to the workers’ separation
or threat of separation.
Affirmative Determinations for Worker
Adjustment Assistance
The following certifications have been
issued; the date following the company
name and location of each
determination references the impact
date for all workers of such
determination.
The following certifications have been
issued. The requirements of (a)(2)(A)
(increased imports) of section 222 have
been met.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-58,215]
Bespak, Inc. Tenax Corporation, Apex, N.C.; Amended Certification
Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance and
Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance
In accordance with section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C.
2273), and section 246 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, the
Department of Labor issued a Certification of Eligibility to Apply for
Worker Adjustment Assistance and Alternative Trade Adjustment
Assistance on December 2, 2005, applicable to workers of Bespak, Inc.,
Apex, North Carolina. The notice was published in the Federal Register
on December 21, 2005 (70 FR 75841).
At the request of a former employee, the Department reviewed the
certification for workers of the subject firm. The workers produce drug
delivery devices (inhalers, bags, pumps, I.V. lines, and syringes).
The company official provided information to the Department
confirming that the workers wages at the subject firm are reported
under the Unemployment Insurance tax account for Tenax Corporation,
which is a member of the Bespak Group.
Based on this new information, the Department is amending the
certification to include workers of Bespak, Inc., Apex, North Carolina,
whose wages are reported to Tenax Corporation.
The amended notice applicable to TA-W-58,215 is hereby issued as
follows:
All workers of Bespak, Inc., Tenax Corporation, Apex, North
Carolina, who became totally or partially separated from employment
on or after October 25, 2004, through December 2, 2007, are eligible
to apply for adjustment assistance under section 223 of the Trade
Act of 1974, and are also eligible to apply for alternative trade
adjustment assistance under section 246 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of January 2006.
Linda G. Poole,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. E6-1179 Filed 1-30-06; 8:45 am]
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