DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,406

INNOVATIVE WOOD PRODUCTS, INC.
TAYLORSVILLE, 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 September 25, 2009 on behalf of workers of Innovative
Wood Products, Inc., Taylorsville, North Carolina. The workers
produce various customized wood products for customers. The
petitioners allege that separations are the result of foreign
trade.
The investigation revealed that workers of Innovative Wood
Products, Inc. who are engaged in employment related to
various customized wood products meet the criteria as
Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant portion of
workers were separated at the subject firm with the closure of
the firm in February 2009.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Innovative
Wood Products, Inc. produced and sold various customized wood
products to a firm that employed a worker group who is covered
by an active certification to be incorporated into oriented
strandboard.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Innovative Wood Products, Inc. with the TAA-certified firm,
with respect to various customized wood products sold to the
TAA-certified firm, contributed importantly to worker
separations at Innovative Wood Products, Inc.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Innovative Wood
Products, Inc., Taylorsville, North Carolina, who are engaged
in employment related to various customized wood products meet
the worker group certification criteria under Section 222(c) of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c). In accordance with Section 223 of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273, I make the following certification:


"All workers of Innovative Wood Products, Inc.,
Taylorsville, North Carolina, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after September
16, 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 14th day of May, 2010.


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