DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,361

TG FLUID SYSTEMS USA CORP.
A DIVISION OF TOYODA GOSEI N.A.
BRIGHTON, MICHIGAN

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(c), 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 "Supplier" as "a firm that produces and supplies directly
to another firm component parts for articles, or services used
in the production of articles or in the supply of services, as
the case may be, that were the basis for a certification of
eligibility under subsection (a) [of Section 222 of the Act] of
a group of workers employed by such other firm."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on May 21, 2009 by a state workforce office on behalf of
workers of TG Fluid Systems USA Corp., a division of Toyoda
Gosei N.A., Brighton, Michigan (TG Fluid). The workers produce
fuel and vapor emission systems for the automotive industry
(fuel systems tubes and assemblies). The petitioner alleged
that a decline in sales volume is a result of declining orders
from current customers.
The investigation revealed that workers of TG Fluid who are
engaged in employment related to fuel and vapor emissions
systems meet the criteria as Suppliers for secondary worker
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of workers within the workers' firm have been
separated from employment comparing the period of January
through April 2009 over the corresponding 2008 period.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of TG
Fluid produced and sold fuel and vapor emission systems to
Toyota to be incorporated into the Toyota Sienna, Tundra, and
Sequoia vehicles. Workers of Personnel Management, Inc.,
working on-site at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana, Inc.,
Princeton, Indiana are covered by certification number TA-W-
61,608 issued based on the increased reliance on aggregate
U.S. imports of vehicles like or directly competitive to the
Sienna, Tundra, and Sequoia.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by TG Fluid with respect to fuel and vapor emissions systems
sold to Toyota contributed importantly to worker separations
at TG Fluid.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of TG Fluid Systems USA
Corp., a division of Toyoda Gosei N.A., Brighton, Michigan,
who are engaged in employment related to fuel and vapor emission
systems 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 TG Fluid Systems USA Corp., a division of
Toyoda Gosei N.A., Brighton, Michigan, who became totally
or partially separated from employment on or after May 19,
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 20th day of August, 2009.

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