DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-50,476

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL
COON RAPIDS, MINNESOTA

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 January 6, 2003 in
response to a petition filed by the Willman Workforce Center on
behalf of workers at Honeywell International, Coon Rapids,
Minnesota. The workers produce navigation systems for commercial
aircraft.
The investigation revealed that neither criterion I.C. nor
II.B. has been met.
The subject firm is not importing products like those it
produces at the Coon Rapids, Minnesota facility, nor has it
shifted production abroad.
The Department of Labor surveyed the major customer of the
subject firm regarding its purchases of navigation systems for
commercial aircraft. The survey revealed that the customer did
not import products like or directly competitive with those
purchased from the subject firm.


Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Honeywell International, Coon Rapids, Minnesota 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 20th day of March 2003.

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