DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-93,570

STEEL WAREHOUSE QUAD CITIES, LLC
A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF LERMAN HOLDING CO., INC.
ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS

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 22, 2018, by a state workforce office on
behalf of workers of Steel Warehouse Quad Cities, LLC, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Lerman Holding Co., Inc., Rock Island,
Illinois. The workers' firm is engaged in activities related
to the production of low carbon flat rolled steel. The worker
group is not inclusive of any on-site leased or temporary
workers.
The investigation revealed that on January 26, 2017, the
International Trade Commission found that an industry in the
United States is materially injured by reason of imports of
carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Brazil, South
Africa, and Turkey.
A petition has been filed on behalf of workers of Steel
Warehouse Quad Cities, LLC, Rock Island, Illinois. 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 January 26, 2017, which would have been 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 Steel Warehouse Quad
Cities, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lerman Holding Co.,
Inc., Rock Island, Illinois, engaged in activities related to
the production of low carbon flat rolled steel, 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 Steel Warehouse Quad Cities, LLC, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Lerman Holding Co., Inc., Rock
Island, Illinois, who became totally or partially separated
from that employment on or after January 26, 2016, through
the date of the certification and who become totally or
partially separated from that employment from the date of
the certification through January 26, 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 9th day of April 2018.

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