DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-93,525

GULF CHEMICAL & METALLURGICAL CORPORATION
A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF COMILOG HOLDING
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
CLARK INDUSTRIAL SERVICES, LLC, MILLER CONSOLIDATED, INC.,
TMS INTERNATIONAL, LLC, AND KENKAY INDUSTRIAL SERVICES
FREEPORT, 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(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 February 7, 2018 by a state workforce office on behalf
of workers of Gulf Chemical & Metallurgical Corporation, a
wholly owned subsidiary of Comilog Holding, including on-site
leased workers from Clark Industrial Services, LLC, Miller
Consolidated, Inc., TMS International, LLC, and Kenkay
Industrial Services, Freeport, Texas. The workers' firm is
engaged in activities related to the production of oxides of
molybdenum and vanadium, and alloys of nickel, cobalt, and
alumina.
The investigation revealed that on May 12, 2017, the
International Trade Commission found that an industry in the
United States is materially injured by reason of imports of
ferrovanadium from Korea.


A petition has been filed on behalf of the workers of Gulf
Chemical & Metallurgical Corporation, Freeport, Texas. 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 May 12, 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 Gulf Chemical &
Metallurgical Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Comilog Holding, including on-site leased workers from Clark
Industrial Services, LLC, Miller Consolidated, Inc., TMS
International, LLC, and Kenkay Industrial Services, Freeport,
Texas, engaged in activities related to the production of oxides
of molybdenum and vanadium, and alloys of nickel, cobalt, and
alumina, 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 Gulf Chemical & Metallurgical Corporation,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Comilog Holding, including
on-site leased workers from Clark Industrial Services,
LLC, Miller Consolidated, Inc., TMS International, LLC,
and Kenkay Industrial Services, Freeport, Texas, who
became totally or partially separated from that employment
on or after May 12, 2016, through the date of the
certification and who become totally or partially separated
from that employment from the date of the certification
through May 12, 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 8th day of March 2018.

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