UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-98,081

STUPP BROS., INC.

A SUBSIDIARY OF STUPP CORPORATION

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA

Negative Determinations Regarding Eligibility

To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

And Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended ("the Act"), 19 U.S.C. § 2273, the Department of Labor
("the Department") herein presents the results of an investigation
regarding certification of eligibility to apply for worker
adjustment assistance.

Workers of a firm may be eligible for worker adjustment
assistance if they satisfy the criteria of subsection (a) and (b)
of Section 222 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a) and (b). For the
Department of Labor to issue a certification for workers under
Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), the following three
criteria must be met:

(1) 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 such workers' firm, or
an appropriate subdivision of the firm, have become totally
or partially separated, or are threatened to become totally
or partially separated

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

(A) Increased Imports Path:

(i) sales or production, or both, at the workers' firm must
have decreased absolutely, AND

(ii) imports of articles like or directly competitive with
articles produced by such firm or subdivision have
increased; and

(iii) the increase described in clause (ii) contributed
importantly to such workers' separation or threat of
separation and to the decline in the sales or production
of such firm or subdivision.

(B) Shift in Production Path:

(i) there has been a shift in production by such workers'
firm or subdivision to a foreign country of articles
like or directly competitive with articles which are
produced by such firm or subdivision; and

(ii)(I) the country to which the workers' firm has
shifted production of the articles is a party to a free
trade agreement with the United States;

(II)the country to which the workers' firm has
shifted production of the articles is a beneficiary
country under the Andean Trade Preference Act, African
Growth and Opportunity Act, or the Caribbean Basin
Economic Recovery Act; or

(III)there has been or is likely to be an increase
in imports of articles that are like or directly
competitive with articles which are or were produced by
such firm or subdivision.

For the Department to issue a secondary worker certification
under Section 222(b) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(b), to workers
of a Supplier or a Downstream Producer, the following criteria
must be met:

(1) a significant number or proportion of the workers in the
workers' firm or an appropriate subdivision of the firm
have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;

(2) the workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer
to a firm that employed a group of workers who received
a certification of eligibility under Section 222(a) of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), and such supply or
production is related to the article that was the basis
for such certification; and

(3) either

(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component parts
it supplied to the firm described in paragraph (2)
accounted for at least 20 percent of the production or
sales of the workers' firm; or

(B) a loss of business by the workers' firm with the firm
described in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to
the workers' separation or threat of separation.

Section 222(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), defines the
terms "Supplier" and "Downstream Producer."

The investigation was initiated in response to a Trade
Adjustment Assistance for Workers (TAA) and Alternative Trade
Adjustment (ATAA) petition dated October 11, 2021 and filed on
October 12, 2021 by a State Workforce Office, on behalf former
workers of Stupp Bros., Inc., a subsidiary of Stupp Corporation,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana (hereafter referred to as the "group of
workers"). In accordance with 20 CFR 618.110 a group of workers is
defined as, ""¦including teleworkers and staffed workers."

The group of workers is engaged in activities related to
the production of pipe 10" up to 24" and 24" up to 60" in outside
diameter and supplied services for the safe transport of oil,
gas, and associated products.

The petition alleges that worker separations, or threats
thereof, were due to, "Cancellation/postponement of key US
pipelines resulted in 9 million feet of quality pipe coming into
the pipe market. Oil wars between Russia/Saudi Arabia in 1H2020
resulted in a world oil glut created significant decline in need
for domestic pipe. An influx of foreign pipe and possible
suspension of the Section 232 tariffs."

During the course of the investigation, the Department
collected information from the petitioner(s), the workers' firm,
and other relevant sources.

With respect to Section 222(a)(2)(B) of the Act, the
investigation revealed that the workers' firm did not shift
production of pipe 10" up to 24" and 24" up to 60" in outside
diameter to a foreign country.

With respect to Section 222(a)(2)(A)(ii), the investigation
revealed that imports of articles like or directly competitive
with the articles produced by the workers' firm have not
increased. The investigation revealed that the workers' firm
did not import pipe 10" up to 24" and 24" up to 60" in outside
diameter, or articles like or directly competitive to pipe 10"
up to 24" and 24" up to 60" in outside diameter, during the
relevant period of the investigation. A survey of lost bids
revealed that pipe projects were awarded to firms, producing
like or directly competitive pipe 10" up to 24" and 24" up to
60" in outside diameter, within the United States.

With respect to Section 222(b)(2) of the Act, the
investigation revealed that Stupp Bros., Inc., a subsidiary of
Stupp Corporation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana is not a Supplier to a
firm that employed a group of workers who received a certification
of eligibility under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. §
2272(a).

With respect to Section 222(b)(2) of the Act, the
investigation revealed that Stupp Bros., Inc., a subsidiary of
Stupp Corporation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana does not act as a
Downstream Producer to a firm (or subdivision, whichever is
applicable) that employed a group of workers who received a
certification of eligibility under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19
U.S.C. § 2272(a), based on an increase in imports from, or a shift
in production to Canada or Mexico.

ALTERNATIVE TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE

In order for the Department to issue a certification of
eligibility to apply for Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance
("ATAA"), the group of workers must be certified eligible to apply
for Trade Adjustment Assistance ("TAA"). Because the group of
workers are denied eligibility to apply for TAA, the group of
workers cannot be certified eligible for ATAA.

Conclusion

After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that all workers of Stupp Bros., Inc.,
a subsidiary of Stupp Corporation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana engaged
in activities related to the production of pipe 10" up to 24"
and 24" up to 60" in outside diameter are denied eligibility to
apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act
of 1974, as amended, and are also denied eligibility to apply for
alternative trade adjustment assistance under Section 246 of the
Trade Act of 1974, amended.

Signed in Washington, D.C. this 10th day of May, 2022


/s/ Hope D. Kinglock
_______________________
HOPE D. KINGLOCK

Certifying Officer, Office of

Trade Adjustment Assistance