DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,681

PREMIER TRIM, LLC, SPECTRUM TRIM, LLC
AND GRANT PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
D/B/A SPECTRUM GRANT DE MEXICO
INCLUDING WORKERS WHOSE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
(UI) WAGES ARE PAID THROUGH
GRANT PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
MANUFACTURING DIVISION
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS AND SELECT STAFF
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS

Amended 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 issued
a Certification of Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment
Assistance on June 25, 2010, applicable to workers of Premier
Trim, LLC and Spectrum Trim, LLC, d/b/a Spectrum Grant De Mexico,
Manufacturing Division, including on-site leased workers from
Express Employment Professionals and Select Staff, Brownsville,
Texas. The workers are engaged in activities related to the
production of wood steering wheels. The notice was published in
the Federal Register on July 7, 2010 (75 FR 39047).
At the request of the State agency, the Department reviewed
the certification for workers of the subject firm.
Information shows that as of January 29, 2010, Premier
Trim, LLC, Spectrum Trim, LLC and Grant Products International,
Inc. have merged and are officially one company under the name of
Spectrum Grant de Mexico. Some workers separated from employment
at the Brownsville, Texas location of Premier Trim, LLC and
Spectrum Trim, LLC and Grant Products International, Inc. d/b/a
Spectrum Grant de Mexico had their wages reported under a
separate unemployment insurance (UI) tax account under the name
Grant Products International, Inc.
Accordingly, the Department is amending this certification
to properly reflect this matter.
The intent of the Department’s certification is to include
all workers of the subject firm who were adversely affected by a
shift in the production of wood steering wheels to Mexico.


The amended notice applicable to TA-W-73,681 is hereby
issued as follows:
"All workers of Premier Trim, LLC, Spectrum Trim, LLC
and Grant Products International, Inc., d/b/a Spectrum
Grant de Mexico, including workers whose unemployment
insurance (UI) wages are paid through Grant Products
International, Inc., Manufacturing Division, including
on-site leased workers from Express Employment
Professionals and Select Staff, Brownsville, Texas,
who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after March 10, 2009 through June 25,
2012, and all workers in the group threatened with
total or partial separation from employment on 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 at Washington, D.C. this 1st day of November, 2011.

/s/ Michael W. Jaffe
__________________________________
MICHAEL W. JAFFE
Certifying Officer, Office
of Trade Adjustment Assistance
4510-FN-P


DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,681

PREMIER TRIM, LLC AND SPECTRUM TRIM, LLC
D/B/A SPECTRUM GRANT DE MEXICO
MANUFACTURING DIVISION
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS AND SELECT STAFF
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS

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(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), are satisfied if
the following criteria are met:
I. The first criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(1) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(1)) requires that a significant
number or proportion of the workers in the workers’ firm must
have become totally or partially separated or be threatened
with total or partial separation.

II. The second criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(2) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(2)) may be satisfied if either:

(i)(I) there has been a shift by the workers’ firm to a
foreign country in the production of articles or supply
of services like or directly competitive with those
produced/supplied by the workers’ firm; OR
(i)(II) there has been an acquisition from a foreign country
by the workers’ firm of articles/services that are like
or directly competitive with those produced/supplied by
the workers’ firm.

III. The third criterion requires that the shift/acquisition must
have contributed importantly to the workers’ separation or
threat of separation. See Section 222(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(2)(B)(ii).

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on March 11, 2010 on behalf of workers of Premier Trim, LLC
and Spectrum Trim, LLC d/b/a Spectrum Grant de Mexico,
Manufacturing Division, Brownsville, Texas (hereinafter referred
to as Spectrum Grant de Mexico). The worker group includes on-
site leased workers from Express Employment Professionals and
Select Staff. The workers are engaged in activities related to the
production of wood steering wheels.
The investigation revealed that workers of Spectrum Grant de
Mexico, who are engaged in activities related to the production
of wood steering wheels, meet the criteria for certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion of
the workers at the workers’ firm have been separated during the
relevant period and further separations are scheduled.
Criterion II has been satisfied because the workers’ firm is
shifting to a foreign country the production of an article like
or directly competitive with the article produced by the workers.


Criterion III has been met because the shift of wood
steering wheels to Mexico by Spectrum Grant de Mexico contributed
importantly to worker group separations at the Brownsville, Texas
facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Premier Trim, LLC and
Spectrum Trim, LLC d/b/a Spectrum Grant de Mexico, Manufacturing
Division, Brownsville, Texas, including on-site leased workers
from Express Employment Professionals and Select Staff, who are
engaged in activities related to wood steering wheels, 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 Premier Trim, LLC and Spectrum Trim, LLC
d/b/a Spectrum Grant de Mexico, Manufacturing Division,
Brownsville, Texas, including on-site leased workers from
Express Employment Professionals and Select Staff, who became
totally or partially separated from employment on or after
March 10, 2009, through two years from the date of
certification, and all workers in the group threatened with
total or partial separation from employment on 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 25th day of June, 2010.


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



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