DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
TA-W-58,317

PREWETT HOSIERY SALES CORPORATION
FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA

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, 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 investigation was initiated on November 14, 2005, in
response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of
workers at Prewett Hosiery Sales Corporation, Fort Payne, Alabama.
The workers at the subject firm manage all areas of sales,
clerical, IT, along with accounts payables and receivables.
The investigation revealed that Prewett Hosiery Sales
Corporation, Fort Payne, Alabama does not produce an article within
the meaning of Section 222(a)(2) of the Act. In order to be
considered eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under
Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, the worker group seeking
certification (or on whose behalf certification is being sought)
must work for a "firm" or appropriate subdivision that produces an
article and there must be a relationship between the workers' work
and the article produced by the workers' firm or appropriate
subdivision. The workers engaged in the sales, clerical, IT, along
with accounts payables and receivables activities work do support a
firm or appropriate subdivision that produces an article
domestically, but that firm is not trade affected and thus the
worker group can not be considered import impacted.
Workers of the subject firm were certified eligible to apply
for trade adjustment assistance based on increased customer imports
of cotton socks, under petition number TA-W-52,564, which expired
on October 14, 2005. There has been no significant decline in
employment since the expiration of the certification.
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 of the facts obtained in this
investigation, I determine that all workers of Prewett Hosiery
Sales Corporation, Fort Payne, Alabama are denied eligibility to
apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 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 in Washington, D. C. this day of December 2005




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