DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-93,449

METALLURGICAL PRODUCTS COMPANY
WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA

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(e) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(e), are
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
(1) the workers' firm is publicly identified by name by
the International Trade Commission as a member of a
domestic industry in an investigation resulting in--
(A) an affirmative determination of serious injury or
threat thereof under section 202(b)(1);
(B) an affirmative determination of market disruption
or threat thereof under section 421(b)(1); or
(C) an affirmative final determination of material
injury or threat thereof under section
705(b)(1)(A) or 735(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b)(1)(A) and
1673d(b)(1)(A));

(2) the petition is filed during the 1-year period
beginning on the date on which--
(A) a summary of the report submitted to the
President by the International Trade Commission
under section 202(f)(1) with respect to the
affirmative determination described in paragraph
(1)(A) is published in the Federal Register under
section 202(f)(3); or
(B) notice of an affirmative determination described
in subparagraph (B) or (C) of paragraph (1) is
published in the Federal Register; and

(3) the workers have become totally or partially
separated from the workers' firm within--
(A) the 1-year period described in paragraph (2); or
(B) notwithstanding section 223(b), the 1-year
period preceding the 1-year period described in
paragraph (2).

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on January 25, 2018 by a state workforce office on behalf
of workers of Metallurgical Products Company, West Chester,
Pennsylvania ("Metallurgical Products Company"). The workers'
firm is engaged in activities related to the production of
copper-base master alloys which are used in the metals melting
industry, as well as, the trading of other base metals.
The investigation revealed that on April 20, 2017, the
International Trade Commission found that an industry in the
United States is materially injured by reason of imports of
certain phosphor copper products from Korea. A petition has
been filed on behalf of workers of Metallurgical Products
Company. That firm was publicly identified by name by the
International Trade Commission as a member of a domestic
industry in an investigation resulting in a category of
determination that is listed in Section 222(e) of the Act, 19
U.S.C. § 2272(e). In addition, that determination was published
in the Federal Register on April 20, 2017, which is within one
year of the date of the petition filed requesting Trade
Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Certification.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Metallurgical
Products Company, West Chester, Pennsylvania, engaged in
activities related to the production of copper-base master
alloys which are used in the metals melting industry, as well
as, the trading of other base metals meet the requirements of
Section 222(e) of the Act. In accordance with Section 223 of the
Act, I make the following certification:











"All workers of Metallurgical Products Company, West
Chester, Pennsylvania, who became totally or partially
separated from that employment on or after April 20, 2016,
through the date of the certification and who become
totally or partially separated from that employment from
the date of the certification through April 20, 2018, 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 1th day of March 2018.

/s/Hope D. Kinglock
______________________________
HOPE D. KINGLOCK
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance