DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-50,215

GREYSTONE INC./RHODE ISLAND TOOL COMPANY
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended (19 USC 2273), the Department of Labor herein presents the
results of an investigation regarding certification of eligibility
to apply for worker adjustment assistance. The group eligibility
requirements for directly-impacted (primary) workers under Section
222(a) the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, can be satisfied in
either of two ways:
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 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 is 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.

The investigation was initiated on November 29, 2002, in
response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of
workers of Greystone, Inc./Rhode Island Tool Company, Providence,
Rhode Island. The workers produced steel forged parts.
The investigation revealed that criterion I.C. has not been
met. The loss of a major bid placed with a foreign customer
precipitated the decline in sales and employment and the plant
closure which followed. Loss of export sales cannot be used as a
basis for certification. Moreover, the value of bids among
domestic customers that is known to be lost to foreign firms is a
very small percentage of the subject firm's total sales and thus
did not contribute importantly to layoffs at Providence, Rhode
Island.
Criterion II.B. has also not been met. There has been no
shift of production to any foreign country. The majority of the
subject firm's established customers are now obtaining steel forged
parts from a successor firm to Greystone/Rhode Island that is
located domestically.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Greystone, Inc./Rhode Island Tool Company, Providence, Rhode
Island are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance
under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 10th day of April 2003


/s/Richard Church
______________________________
Richard Church
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance