DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,441

NEW VENTURE GEAR INC.
NEW PROCESS GEAR DIVISION
EAST SYRACUSE, NEW YORK

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 in response to a petition
received on December 18, 2000, filed by the United Auto Workers
Local 624 and filed on behalf of workers at New Venture Gear
Inc., New Process Gear Division, East Syracuse, New York. The
workers produce automotive components. The investigation
revealed that criterion (3) has not been met.
A petition for NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance has
been filed on behalf of workers at the subject firm (NAFTA -
4364). A decision on that petition will be made concurrently
with this determination.
This investigation revealed that sales, production, and
employment at the East Syracuse, New York facility declined in
January-November 2000 compared with the same period in 1999.
The U.S. Department of Labor conducted a survey of a major
customer of New Venture Gear Inc., New Process Gear Division,
East Syracuse, New York regarding its purchases of transmission
components in 1999, 2000, and January 2001. The survey revealed
that the respondent did not import transmission components while
decreasing purchases from the subject firm in the relevant
period.
The investigation further revealed that New Venture Gear
Inc., New Process Gear Division, East Syracuse, New York does
not import articles like or directly competitive with the auto-
mobile transmission transfer cases or V.S.E.S. products produced
at its East Syracuse, New York facility.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of New
Venture Gear Inc., New Process Gear Division, East Syracuse, New
York are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance
under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed at Washington, D.C., this 13th day of February, 2001.
/s/ Linda G. Poole
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LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance