DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,999

DETROIT TOOL & ENGINEERING
LEBANON, MISSOURI

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 April 9, 2001, in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Detroit Tool
& Engineering, Lebanon, Missouri. The workers produced custom
automated machinery and metal forming tools and dies.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm sales increased from 1999 to 2000.
Employment of production workers at Detroit Tool &
Engineering, Lebanon, Missouri, increased from 1999 to 2000, and
in the first two months of 2001 compared to the same time period
of the previous year. Plant layoffs in March 2001 are
attributable to the completion of production of the articles
required in a long-term contract.
A petition for eligibility for NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment
Assistance has been filed on behalf of the same group of workers
at the subject firm, NAFTA-4701.
Conclusion

After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Detroit Tool & Engineering, Lebanon, Missouri, are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 10th day of July, 2001.
/s/ Linda G. Poole


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