DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-57,916

GTP GREENVILLE, INC.
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA

Negative Determinations Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker 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 producers 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 September 9, 2005 in
response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of
workers at GTP Greenville, Inc., Greenville, South Carolina. The
workers at the subject firm produce weaving machine
parts/accessories (i.e. heddles, frames, reeds, drop wires).
The investigation revealed that criteria (2) 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 workers firm was not a supplier or downstream producer to
a firm that employed a group of workers who received a
certification of eligibility to apply for trade adjustment
assistance. That is, the weaving machine parts/accessories
produced by GTP Greenville, Inc., were not incorporated into the
articles produced by a certified trade affected worker group.
Furthermore, the workers did not assemble or finish products made
by any trade affected company.


Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of GTP
Greenville, Inc., Greenville, South Carolina are denied eligibility
to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade
Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C., this 24th day of October, 2005.

/s/ Elliott S. Kushner
______________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance