DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,034

PRECISION SOURCE
SMITHFIELD, RHODE ISLAND

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 14, 2009, by a company official, on behalf of
workers of Precision Source, Smithfield, Rhode Island. The
workers produced components for writing instruments.
The investigation revealed that workers of Precision
Source, Smithfield, Rhode Island, who are engaged in
employment related to the production of components for writing
instruments, meet the criteria as suppliers for secondary
worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because all workers at the
subject firm were separated during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Precision
Source, Smithfield, Rhode Island produced and sold components
for writing instruments to a firm that employed a worker group
who is covered by an active Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
certification to be incorporated into writing instruments.
Criterion III has been met because the components
produced by the subject firm for the firm that employed a TAA-
certified worker group accounted for at least 20 percent of
the production or sales of Precision Source.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Precision Source,
Smithfield, Rhode Island, who are engaged in employment related
to the production of components for writing instruments, 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 Precision Source, Smithfield, Rhode Island
who became totally or partially separated from employment
on or after August 11, 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 26th day of January, 2010

/s/Del Min Amy Chen
______________________________
DEL MIN AMY CHEN
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance