[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 209 (Friday, October 29, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 66794]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-27388]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-73,722]


Sojitz Corporation of America, a Subsidiary of Sojitz 
Corporation, Forest Products Department, Seattle, WA; Notice of 
Affirmative Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration

    By application dated September 23, 2010, by a Washington State 
workforce official requested administrative reconsideration of the 
negative determination regarding workers' eligibility to apply for 
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) applicable to workers and former 
workers of Sojitz Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Sojitz 
Corporation, Forest Products Department, Seattle, Washington (subject 
firm). The determination was issued on September 1, 2010. The 
Department's Notice of Determination was published in the Federal 
Register on September 21, 2010 (75 FR 57517). The workers provide 
services related to the trade of forest products.
    The negative determination was based on the findings that the 
subject firm did not, during the period under investigation, shift to a 
foreign country the supply of services like or directly competitive 
with the services performed by the workers or acquire these services 
from a foreign country; that the workers' separation, or threat of 
separation, was not related to any increase in imports of like or 
directly competitive services; and that the workers did not produce an 
article or supply a service that was directly used in the production of 
an article or the supply of service by a firm that employed a worker 
group that is eligible to apply for TAA based on the aforementioned 
article or service.
    In the request for reconsideration, the petitioners alleged that 
the subject firm has shifted services to a foreign country.
    The Department has carefully reviewed the request for 
reconsideration and the existing record, and has determined that the 
Department will conduct further investigation to determine if the 
petitioning workers meet the eligibility requirements of the Trade Act 
of 1974, as amended.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the application, I conclude that the claim 
is of sufficient weight to justify reconsideration of the U.S. 
Department of Labor's prior decision. The application is, therefore, 
granted.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 18th day of October 2010.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2010-27388 Filed 10-28-10; 8:45 am]
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