DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-93,774

KEYSTONE BAR PRODUCTS, INC.
A SUBSIDIARY OF KEYSTONE CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES, INC.
CHICAGO HEIGHTS, 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 April 27, 2018 by the state workforce office on behalf
of workers of Keystone Bar Products, Inc., a subsidiary of
Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc., Chicago Heights,
Illinois (hereafter collectively referred to as "Keystone-
Chicago Heights"). The workers' firm is engaged in activities
related to the production of merchant and special quality steel
bar products and special sections in alloy and steel grades.
Workers are not separately identifiable by the article produced.
The investigation revealed that on July 7, 2017, the
International Trade Commission found that an industry in the
United States is materially injured by reason of imports of
steel reinforcing bar from Japan and Turkey. A petition has
been filed on behalf of workers of Keystone-Chicago Heights.
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 July 7, 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 Keystone Bar
Products, Inc., a subsidiary of Keystone Consolidated
Industries, Inc., Chicago Heights, Illinois, engaged in
activities related to the production of merchant and special
quality steel bar products and special sections in alloy and
steel grades, 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 Keystone Bar Products, Inc., a subsidiary
of Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc., Chicago
Heights, Illinois, who became totally or partially
separated from that employment on or after July 7, 2016,
through July 7, 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 12th day of July 2018.

/s/Jessica R. Webster
______________________________
JESSICA R. WEBSTER
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance