DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-52,499

PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC COIL, LTD
GLASSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA

Negative Determinations Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance
And Alternative Trade 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 of component parts 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 August 11, 2003, in
response to a petition filed by the United Electrical Workers,
Local 615, on behalf of workers of Pennsylvania Electric Coil, LTD,
Glassport, Pennsylvania. The workers produce electronic coils.
The investigation revealed that criterion (2) has not been met.

Petitioners allege that the subject firm lost business as a
supplier to a trade-affected company, Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel
Corporation, Wheeling, West Virginia. The investigation revealed
that the customer was not certified as eligible for trade
adjustment assistance.
The investigation also revealed that there were no company
imports of electronic coils, nor was there a shift in production of
electronic coils to a foreign country during the period under
investigation.
The Department conducted a survey of major customers of
Pennsylvania Electric Coil, LTD, Glassport, Pennsylvania, regarding
their purchases of electronic coils in 2001, 2002, and January
through June of 2003. The survey revealed that no respondent
reported increasing its imports of electronic coils while
decreasing purchases from the subject firm during the relevant time
period.
In addition, in accordance with Section 246 the Trade Act of
1974 (26 USC 2813), as amended, the Department of Labor herein
presents the results of its investigation regarding certification
of eligibility to apply for alternative trade adjustment assis-
tance (ATAA) for older workers.
In order for the Department to issue a certification of
eligibility to apply for ATAA, the worker group must be certified
eligible to apply for trade adjustment assistance (TAA). Since
the workers are denied eligibility to apply for TAA, the workers
cannot be certified eligible for ATAA.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers covered
by this petition of Pennsylvania Electric Coil, LTD, Glassport,
Pennsylvania do not qualify as adversely affected secondary
workers and are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment


assistance under section 223(b) of the Trade Act of 1974,
and are also denied eligibility to apply for alternative trade
adjustment assistance (ATAA) under Section 246 of the Trade Act
of 1974.
Signed at Washington, D.C., this 6th day of October 2003.

/s/ Richard Church

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RICHARD CHURCH
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance