DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-50,256

E.J. SNYDER & CO., INC.
ALBEMARLE, NORTH CAROLINA

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 December 6, 2002, in
response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of
workers of E.J. Snyder & Co., Inc., Albemarle, North Carolina.
The workers dyed and finished knit fabric.
The investigation revealed that Criteria (I.B), (I.C) and
(II. B) are not met.
The subject firm has not experienced declines in sales or
production, nor has it shifted the dying and finishing of
circular knit fabric offshore.
The U.S. Department of Labor surveyed the major customers
of the subject firm regarding their dying and finishing of knit
circular fabric. That survey disclosed that none of them has
either directly or indirectly imported dyed and finished
circular knit fabric.
None of the firms which the subject firm specified as being
firms for which they had assembled/finished products and which
they believed had been affected by foreign imports has been
certified as having been affected by imports from Canada or
Mexico.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of E.J.
Snyder & Co., Inc., Albemarle, North Carolina 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 25th day of February 2003

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