DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-56,593

GENEVA MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
GENEVA, INDIANA

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 of 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 February 17, 2005,
in response to a petition filed on behalf of workers of
Geneva Manufacturing Corporation, Geneva Indiana. The
workers were engaged in the production of hardware for the
casket industry (i.e. corners, lugs and lifting bars).
The investigation revealed that criterion/criteria
(3)(A) has not been met.
Petitioners allege that job losses were due to their
firm losing business as a supplier to a firm that shifted
production abroad or was affected by increased imports.
The investigation revealed, however, that was not the case.
The investigation revealed that sales, production and
employment declined during the period under investigation.
The Department of Labor surveyed the subject firm's
major declining customers to determine if customers
increased imports during 2003, 2004 and the month of
January in 2004 and 2005. The subject firm's customers did
not increase import purchases of casket hardware while
reducing purchases from the subject firm.
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 assistance (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 Geneva Manufacturing
Corporation, Geneva, Indiana, 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 under Section
246 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed at Washington, D.C., this 28th day of March, 2005.

/s/ Linda G. Poole

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LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance