DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
TA-W-38,559
SPRECKELS SUGAR COMPANY, div. of IMPERIAL SUGAR COMPANY
WOODLAND, CALIFORNIA

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 January 16, 2001, filed by the United Food and
Commercial Workers International Union, Local 1790, on behalf of
workers at Spreckels Sugar Company, div. of Imperial Sugar
Company, Woodland, California. The workers are engaged in the
production of refined sugar.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) was not met.
The impending cessation of sugar processing at the subject
plant was a direct result of an overabundance of the product
which caused the company to close its less efficient operations.
Overall sales of refined sugar by the parent company have
increased throughout the relevant period.
United States aggregate imports of sugar from all sources
decreased during this same period.
Workers at the subject firm were denied eligibility to apply
for NAFTA Transitional Adjustment on December 5, 2000 (NAFTA-
4308).
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Spreckels Sugar Company, div. of Imperial Sugar Company,
Woodland, California, are denied eligibility to apply for adjust-

ment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 28th day of February, 2001.
/s/ Linda G. Poole

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