DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-50,985

S.B. FOOT TANNING COMPANY
TEXAS DIVISION
DUMAS, TEXAS

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 February 26, 2003 in
response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of
workers at S.B. Foot Tanning Company, Texas Division, Dumas, Texas.
The workers at the subject firm produce tanned leather eventually
used in shoe and boot production.
The investigation revealed that criteria (I.C.) and (II.B)
were not met.
The major part of the tanned leather produced at Dumas is sent
to another affiliated domestic facility in Red Wing, Minnesota for
dying and finishing before sale to shoe manufacturers.
The investigation revealed that the subject firm and its
affiliate did not import tanned leather used in shoe and boot
production from 2001 to 2002.
Furthermore, the investigation revealed that the subject firm
did not shift production of its leather used in shoe and boot
production abroad during the relevant period.




Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of S.B.
Foot Tanning Company, Texas Division, Dumas, Texas are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of
the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 14th day of March 2003.


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