DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,990

AMI CANDLE, INC.
FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS

Certification 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. It is determined in this case that all of the requirements have been met.
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition received on April 9, 2001, and filed by workers on behalf of all workers at Ami Candle, Inc., Fall River, Massachusetts. The workers produce candles.
This investigation revealed that sales, production and employment declined at the subject plant in the relevant period.

The Department of Labor conducted a survey of the major customers of the subject firm regarding purchases of candles. The results of the survey show that the major customers maintained a very high level of importation of candles while curtailing purchases from the subject firm.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the investi-gation, I conclude that increases of imports of articles like or directly competitive with candles produced at Ami Candle, Inc., Fall River, Massachusetts, contributed importantly to the decline in sales or production and to the total or partial separation of workers of that firm. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make the following certification:
"All workers of Ami Candle, Inc., Fall River, Massachusetts, who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after March 24, 2000, through two years from the date of this certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974."

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 31st day of August, 2001.

/s/ Edward A. Tomchick
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EDWARD A. TOMCHICK
Director, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance