[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 18 (Friday, January 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 2539]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1376]



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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
[TA-W-29,037]


Simonds Industries, Incorporated; Newcomerstown, OH; Notice of 
Revised Determination on Reconsideration

    The Department, on its own motion, has reconsidered its negative 
determination in Former Employees of United States Steel Workers of 
America, Locals 2391 & 3225 v. Robert Reich, No. 94-02-00125, U.S. 
Court of International Trade. As a result of this reconsideration, the 
Department is now certifying the workers of Simonds Industries, 
Incorporated (``Simonds''), in Newcomerstown, Ohio, as eligible to 
apply for trade adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade 
Act of 1974.
    The Department's December 3, 1993, negative determination for 
workers of the subject firm was issued on the basis that the survey of 
Simonds customers showed increased imports by respondents with reduced 
purchases from the subject firm were not important in relation to the 
sales decline during the periods under investigation. New investigation 
findings, however, show that Simonds' major declining customers in 1991 
to 1992, and in the January-June 1992-1993 time periods increased their 
reliance on imports of industrial files. The declining customers' 
purchases of imported industrial files as a percent of the Simonds' 
sales decline was negligible from 1991 to 1992, but increased 
significantly in January-June 1993 compared to January-June 1992.
    Other new findings in the investigation show that while the value 
of aggregate U.S. imports of files and rasps, including rotary type 
declined in 1992 compared to 1991 and in the twelve-month period ending 
June 1993 compared to the same time period in 1992, the quantity of 
imports increased.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on 
reconsideration, it is concluded that increased imports of articles 
like or directly competitive with industrial files produced at Simonds 
Industries, Incorporated, Newcomerstown, Ohio contributed importantly 
to the decline in sales or production and to the total or partial 
separation of workers at subject firm. In accordance with the 
provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, I make the following revised 
determination:

    ``All workers of Simonds Industries, Incorporated, 
Newcomerstown, Ohio who became totally or partially separated from 
employment on or after September 8, 1992 are eligible to apply for 
adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.''

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 15th day of December 1995.
Russell T. Kile,
Acting Program Manager, Policy and Reemployment Services, Office of 
Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 96-1376 Filed 1-25-96; 8:45 am]
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