DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,955

FELSTED PRODUCTS, LLC
HOLMESVILLE, OHIO

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 10, 2009 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Felsted Products, LLC, Holmesville, Ohio. The
workers produced automotive, agricultural and industrial
components.
The investigation revealed that workers of Felsted
Products, LLC who are engaged in employment related to the
production of automotive, agricultural and industrial components
meet the criteria as Suppliers for secondary worker
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
workers have been separated.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Felsted
Products, LLC produced and sold automotive, agricultural and
industrial components that are incorporated into articles which
form the basis of certification to firms that employed worker
groups who are covered by active Trade Adjustment Assistance
certifications.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Felsted Products, LLC, Holmesville, Ohio with TAA-certified
firms, with respect to automotive, agricultural and industrial
components sold to the TAA-certified firms, contributed
importantly to worker separations at Felsted Products, LLC,
Holmesville, Ohio.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Felsted Products,
LLC, Holmesville, Ohio, 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 Felsted Products, LLC, Holmesville, Ohio,
who became totally or partially separated from employment
on or after August 7, 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 12th day of January, 2010

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