DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,382

CHEROKEE FINISHING COMPANY
SPARTAN INTERNATIONAL
GAFFNEY, SOUTH CAROLINA

Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19
USC 2273) as amended by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
of 1988 (P. L. 100-418), the Department of Labor herein presents
the results of an investigation regarding certification of eligi-
bility to apply for worker adjustment assistance.
In order to make an affirmative determination and issue a
certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance,
each of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the
Act must be met:
(1) that a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision thereof,
have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;

(2) that sales or production, or both, of the firm or
subdivision have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or
appropriate subdivision have contributed importantly to
the separations, or threat thereof, and to the absolute
decline in sales or production.



The investigation was initiated on December 4, 2000, in
response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of
workers at Cherokee Finishing Company, Gaffney, South Carolina. The
subject firm is a division of Spartan International, Spartanburg,
South Carolina. The workers were engaged in employment related to
printing fabric for the home furnishings market.
A petition for NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance has
been filed on behalf of workers at the subject firm (NAFTA-4334).
A determination on that petition will be made concurrently with
this.
This investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The United States Department of Labor surveyed major customers
of the subject firm regarding their purchases of printed fabric.
The survey revealed that customers did not purchases imported
printed fabrics in the relevant time period.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that workers of Cherokee
Finishing Company, Gaffney, South Carolina, are denied eligibility
to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade
Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 30th day of January 2001.


/s/ Linda G. Poole

LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance