DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-50,859

VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY
VISHAY CERA-MITE DIVSION
OCONTO FALLS, WISCONSIN

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
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 February 11, 2003 in
response to a petition filed by a group of workers on behalf of
workers at Vishay Technologies, Inc., Vishay Cera-Mite Division,
Oconto Falls, Wisconsin. The workers at the subject firm produce
positive temperature coefficient thermistors.
The investigation revealed that criteria (a)(2)(A)(I.B)
(a)(2)(B)(II.C) were not met.
The subject facility's sales and production did not decline
during the period under investigation.
Moreover, there was no shift in production of positive
temperature coefficient thermistors, from Vishay Technologies,
Inc., Vishay Cera-Mite Division, Oconto Falls, Wisconsin, to a
foreign country.






Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Vishay
Intertechnologies, Cera-Mite Division, Oconto Falls, Wisconsin are
denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section
223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 20th day of March, 2003


/s/Linda G. Poole
______________________________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance