DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,509

BROWN PACKING COMPANY, INC.
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS


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 sub-
division have decreased absolutely; and

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

The investigation was initiated on January 9, 2001, in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Brown Packing
Company, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas. The workers slaughtered hogs.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm is not importing slaughtered hogs into the
United States.
The major customer of Brown Packing Company, Inc., will have
the hog slaughtering done in another country. This customer has
reported that it does not import slaughtered hogs into the United
States.
A petition for NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance has
been filed on behalf of workers at the subject firm (NAFTA-4415).
A determination on that petition will be made concurrently with
this determination.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Brown
Packing, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas, are denied eligibility to
apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act
of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 16th day of February 2001.

/s/ Linda G. Poole
_____________________________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer
Division of Trade Adjustment
Assistance