UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-98,095

ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC.

A COLLINS AEROSPACE COMPANY

A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORP.

MISSION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA

Negative Determinations Regarding Eligibility

To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

And Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance

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 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 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 Assistance (ATAA)petition dated October 25, 2021 and
filed on October 26, 2021, by the state workforce office, on
behalf of former workers of Rockwell Collins, Inc., a Collins
Aerospace Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon
Technologies Corp., Mission Systems Engineering and Business
Development Division, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (hereafter referred to
as "group of workers" or "Rockwell Collins/Mission Systems
Engineering and Business Development Division"). In accordance
with 20 C.F.R. 618.110 a worker group is defined as, ""¦including
teleworkers and staffed workers."

The workers' firm is engaged in activities related to the
production of communication and navigation systems for the
aerospace and defense industries. Workers of Rockwell
Collins/Mission Systems Engineering and Business Development

Division are engaged in activities related to the supply of
research and design services and new business services. The
petition alleges that worker separations, or threats thereof,
were due impacts of foreign trade, cited TA-W-96,644 as a
related case, and included an attachment (WARN letter).

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)(A)(ii) of the Act, the
investigation revealed that the workers' firm's imports of
communication and navigation systems, or like or directly
competitive articles, have not increased during the relevant
period when compared to the representative base period.

With respect to Section 222(a)(2)(B) of the Act, the
investigation revealed that the workers' firm did not shift
production of communication and navigation systems, or like or
directly competitive articles, to a foreign country.

With respect to Section 222(b)(2) of the Act, the
investigation revealed that the workers' firm 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), and 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 ATAA, the group of workers must be
certified eligible to apply for 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 Rockwell Collins,
Inc., a Collins Aerospace Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Raytheon Technologies Corp., Mission Systems Engineering and
Business Development Division, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 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 9th day of March, 2022


/s/ Del-Min Amy Chen
_______________________
DEL-MIN AMY CHEN

Certifying Officer, Office of

Trade Adjustment Assistance