DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-50,343

FASHION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
GAFFNEY, SOUTH CAROLINA

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, the Department of Labor herein presents the
results of an investigation regarding certification of eligibility
to apply for worker adjustment assistance as an adversely affected
secondary group.
An investigation was conducted in order to determine whether
the petitioning group of workers qualify as adversely affected
secondary workers as suppliers to a firm or subdivision primarily
affected by increased imports or a shift in production abroad.
In order to make an affirmative determination and issue a
certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance,
the following group eligibility requirements under Section 222(b)
must be met:
(1) a significant number or proportion of the workers in the
workers' firm or an appropriate subdivision of the firm
have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;

(2) the workers' firm (or subdivision) is a supplier or
downstream producer to a firm (or subdivision) that
employed a group of workers who received a certification
of eligibility to apply for trade adjustment assistance
benefits and such supply or production is related to the
article that was the basis for such certification; and

(3) either—

(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component
parts it supplied for the firm (or subdivision) described
in paragraph (2) accounted for at least 20 percent of the
production or sales of the workers' firm; or

(B) a loss of business by the workers' firm with the firm
(or subdivision) described in paragraph (2) contributed
importantly to the workers' separation or threat of
separation.

The investigation was initiated on December 13, 2002, in

response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of
workers at Fashion Technologies, Inc., Gaffney, South Carolina.
The workers produce rotary screens used in the printing of fabric.
The investigation revealed that criteria (2) and (3) were

not met.

The articles produced by petitioners were not component parts
for articles that were the basis for a certification for trade
adjustment assistance eligibility.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine workers of Fashion
Technologies, Inc., Gaffney, South Carolina are denied eligibility
to apply for adjustment assistance under section 223(b) of the
Trade Act of 1974, as amended.
Signed at Washington, D.C., this 23rd day of January 2003.

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