DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,031

LANCE TRANSPORT, INC.
9500 NUEVILLE AVE
HILDEBRAN, NORTH CAROLINA

Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended ("Act"), 19 U.S.C. § 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 workers of a firm under
Section 222(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), can be satisfied if
the following criteria are met:
I. 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;

II. the workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer to
a firm that employed a group of workers who received a
certification of eligibility under Section 222(a) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), and such supply or production
is related to the article or service that was the basis
for such certification; and

III. either
(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component parts
it supplied to the firm 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
described in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to the
workers' separation or threat of separation.

Section 222(d) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(d), defines the
term "Downstream Producer" as "a firm that performs additional,
value-added production processes or services directly for another
firm for articles or services with respect to which a group of
workers in such other firm has been certified under subsection (a)
[of Section 222 of the Act]" and defines the term "value-added
production processes or services" to "include final assembly,
finishing, testing, packaging, or maintenance or transportation
services."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on May 19, 2009 on behalf of workers of Lance Transport,
Inc., Hildebran, North Carolina (referred to hereinafter as
Hildebran facility). The workers provide truck transport services
related to new furniture, and allege that the provision of like
or directly competitive services has shifted to a foreign
country.
The investigation revealed that workers of the Hildebran
facility who are engaged in employment related to new furniture
truck transport services meet the criteria as a Downstream
Producer for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant portion of
workers have been separated.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of the
Hildebran facility provided truck transport services to, among
others: Lexington Furniture Industries, Lexington Home Brands
Division, Plant 15, Lexington, North Carolina; Hooker Furniture
Corp., Martinsville Plant, Martinsville, Virginia; Broyhill
Furniture Industries, Lenoir Chair #5, Lenoir, North Carolina;
HDM Furniture Industries, Drexel Heritage Plant #60, Morgantown,
North Carolina; HDM Furniture Industries, HDM Henredon Morgantown
Operations, Morgantown, North Carolina; Stanley Furniture
Company, Inc., Stanleytown Division, Stanleytown, Virginia;
Progressive Furniture, Inc., Claremont, North Carolina; and
workers of these firms are covered under TA-W-61,301, TA-W-
60,177, TA-W-64,529, TA-W-64,746 TA-W-64,768, TA-W-62,313A, TA-W-
61,907, respectively, based on the increased imports of new
wooden and upholstered furniture, and the provision of new
furniture truck transport services was related to the production
of new wooden and upholstered furniture of Lexington Furniture
Industries, Lexington Home Brands Division, Plant 15, Lexington,
North Carolina; Hooker Furniture Corp., Martinsville Plant,
Martinsville, Virginia; Broyhill Furniture Industries, Lenoir
Chair #5, Lenoir, North Carolina; HDM Furniture Industries,
Drexel Heritage Plant #60, Morgantown, North Carolina; HDM
Furniture Industries, HDM Henredon Morgantown Operations,
Morgantown, North Carolina; Stanley Furniture Company, Inc.,
Stanleytown Division, Stanleytown, Virginia; and Progressive
Furniture, Inc., Claremont, North Carolina.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
described above by the Hildebran facility with Lexington
Furniture Industries, Lexington Home Brands Division, Plant 15,
Lexington, North Carolina; Hooker Furniture Corp., Martinsville
Plant, Martinsville, Virginia; Broyhill Furniture Industries,
Lenoir Chair #5, Lenoir, North Carolina; HDM Furniture
Industries, Drexel Heritage Plant #60, Morgantown, North
Carolina; HDM Furniture Industries, HDM Henredon Morgantown
Operations, Morgantown, North Carolina; Stanley Furniture
Company, Inc., Stanleytown Division, Stanleytown, Virginia; and
Progressive Furniture, Inc., Claremont, North Carolina, has
contributed importantly to the worker separations at the
Hildebran facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Lance Transport, Inc.,
Hildebran, North Carolina, who are engaged in employment related
to new furniture truck transport services meet the worker group
certification criteria under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. §
2272(a). In accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. §
2273, I make the following certification:


"All workers of Lance Transport, Inc., Hildebran, North
Carolina, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after May 18, 2008, through two years from
the date of certification, and all workers in the group
threatened with total or partial separation from employment on
the date of certification through two years from the date of
certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance
under Chapter 2 of Title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended."
Signed in Washington, D.C., this 4th day of August, 2009


/s/Richard Church
______________________________
RICHARD CHURCH
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance