DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,824

FORT DEARBORN COMPANY
COLDWATER, MICHIGAN

Notice of Revised Determination
on Reconsideration

By letter dated July 11, 2002, an employee on behalf of
petitioners requested administrative reconsideration regarding
the Department’s Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility to
Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance, applicable to the workers
of the subject firm.
The initial investigation resulted in a negative
determination issued on June 11, 2002, based on the finding that
imports of paper labels used in the food and beverage industry
did not contribute importantly to worker separations at the
Coldwater plant. The denial notice was published in the Federal
Register on June 24, 2002 (67 FR 42583).
During the period that the Department was reviewing
allegations made in the request for reconsideration, a petition
on behalf of the same subject firm workers for NAFTA-Transitional
Adjustment Assistance was certified on the basis of increased
customer imports (NAFTA-6425) for the same worker group and the
same time period as that which was established in the trade
adjustment assistance petition. Therefore, workers of Fort
Dearborn Company, Coldwater, Michigan meet criterion (3) of
Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Conclusion
After careful review of the additional facts obtained on
reconsideration, I conclude that increased imports of articles
like or directly competitive with those produced at Fort Dearborn
Company, Coldwater, Michigan, contributed importantly to the
declines in sales or production and to the total or partial
separation of workers at the subject firm. In accordance with
the provisions of the Act, I make the following certification:
"All workers of Fort Dearborn Company, Coldwater, Michigan,
who became totally or partially separated from employment on
or after January 8, 2001 through two years from the date of
this certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974."

Signed in Washington, D.C. this 19th day of February 2003.

/s/ Edward A. Tomchick
________________________
EDWARD A. TOMCHICK
Director, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance




DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,824

FORT DEARBORN COMPANY
COLDWATER, MICHIGAN

Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19
USC 2273) as amended by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
of 1988 (P. L. 100-418), the Department of Labor herein presents
the results of an investigation regarding certification of
eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance.
In order to make an affirmative determination and issue a
certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance,
each of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the
Act must be met:
(1) that a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision thereof,
have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;

(2) that sales or production, or both, of the firm or
subdivision have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or
appropriate subdivision have contributed importantly to
the separations, or threat thereof, and to the absolute
decline in sales or production.

The investigation was initiated on February 18, 2002 in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Fort Dearborn
Company, Coldwater, Michigan. The workers produced paper labels
used in the food and beverage industry.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
Production was transferred domestically to Illinois and Texas.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers at Fort
Dearborn Company, Coldwater, Michigan, engaged in employment
related to the production of paper labels used in the food and
beverage industry, are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 11th day of June, 2002.


/s/ Linda G. Poole

______________________________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance