DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-54,511

WAUSAU PAPERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
PRINTING & WRITING GROUP
A SUBSIDIARY OF WAUSAU MASINEE
GROVETON, NEW HAMPSHIRE

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 March 16, 2004 in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Wausau
Papers of New Hampshire, Printing & Writing Group, a subsidiary
of Wausau Masinee, Groveton, New Hampshire. The workers at the
subject firm produce paper. The workers are not separately
identifiable by product line.
The investigation revealed that criteria (a)(2)(A)(I.A) and
(a)(2)(B)(II.A) have not been met.
The investigation revealed that the subject firm did not
separate or threaten to separate a significant number or
proportion of workers as required by Section 222 of the Trade Act
of 1974. Significant number or proportion of the workers means
that total or partial separations, or both, in a firm or
appropriate subdivision thereof, are the equivalent to a total
unemployment of five percent (5 percent) of the workers or 50
workers, whichever is less. Separations by the subject firm did
not meet this threshold level.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in this
investigation, I determine that all workers of Wausau Papers of
New Hampshire, Printing & Writing Group, a subsidiary of Wausau
Masinee, Groveton, New Hampshire are denied eligibility to apply
for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of
1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 6th day of April 2004.


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