DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,278

SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS US LLC
A SUBSIDIARY OF SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS HOLDING US LP
WASHINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA

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 September 11, 2009, on behalf of workers of Sabic
Innovative US LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sabic
Innovative Plastics Holding US LP, Washington, West Virginia
(Sabic Innovative). Workers produce resins in powder form.
The investigation revealed that workers of Sabic
Innovative, who are engaged in employment related to resins in
powder form, meet the criteria as Suppliers for secondary
worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because at least five percent of
the workers have been separated from January through August
2009 when compared to the same time period of 2008.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Sabic
Innovative produced and sold resins in powder form to a firm
that employed a worker group that is covered in an active
certification to be incorporated into resins.
Criterion III has been met because the resins produced by
Sabic Innovative for the TAA-certified firm accounted for at
least 20 percent of the production or sales of Sabic
Innovative.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Sabic Innovative US
LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sabic Innovative Plastics
Holding US LP, Washington, West Virginia, who are engaged in
employment related to resins 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 Sabic Innovative US LLC, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Sabic Innovative Plastics Holding US LP,
Washington, West Virginia, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after September 9, 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 3rd day of December, 2009


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