[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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