DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,325

TRIM MASTERS, INC.
A SUBSIDIARY OF ICI
MODESTA, CALIFORNIA

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 January 21, 2010 by the State Workforce Office on
behalf of workers of Trim Masters, Inc., a subsidiary of ICI,
Modesto, California (Trim Masters). The workers produce seat
frames and door panels for Toyota vehicles.
The investigation revealed that workers of Trim Masters,
who are engaged in employment related to the production of
seat frames and door panels for Toyota vehicles, meet the
criteria as Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
or number of workers at trim Masters has been totally or
partially separated, or are threatened with such separation.
Criterion II has been met because Trim Masters produced
and sold seat frames and door panels to be incorporated into
Toyota vehicles to a firm that employed a worker group who is
covered by an active Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
certification.


Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Trim Masters with the afore-mentioned firm, with respect to
seat frames and door panels for Toyota vehicles, contributed
importantly to worker separations at the subject facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Trim Masters, Inc., a
subsidiary of ICI, Modesto, California, who are engaged in
employment related to the production of seat frames and door
panels for Toyota vehicles, 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 Trim Masters, Inc., a subsidiary of ICI,
Modesto, California, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after January 19, 2009,
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 30th day of March, 2010


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