DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,930

INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS OLD FORT PLANT
FLOORING AND ACOUSTICS GROUP
OLD FORT, 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(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 August 6, 2009 by three workers on behalf of workers of
International Automotive Components Old Fort Plant, Flooring
and Acoustics Group, Old Fort, North Carolina (IAC). The
workers produce automotive interior components.
The investigation revealed that workers of IAC who are
engaged in employment related to the production of automotive
interior parts meet the criteria as Suppliers for secondary
worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because at least five percent of
the workers were separated from employment at the subject firm
facility during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because workers of IAC produced
and sold automotive interior parts to two Ford Motor Company
plants located in Louisville, Kentucky that incorporated these
parts into light trucks and sport-utility vehicles. Workers
of the two Ford Motor Company plants in Louisville, Kentucky
were under certification. The certification was based on
increased imports of light trucks and sport-utility vehicles.
Criterion III has been met because the automotive
interior components produced by IAC for Ford Motor Company
accounted for at least 20 percent of the production or sales
of the subject firm's Old Fort, North Carolina facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of International
Automotive Components Old Fort Plant, Flooring and Acoustics
Group, Old Fort, North Carolina who are engaged in employment
related to production of automotive interior components 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 International Automotive Components Old Fort
Plant, Flooring and Acoustics Group, Old Fort, North Carolina,
who became totally or partially separated from employment on or
after August 4, 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 9th day of September, 2009.

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