DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,276

CUTTING EDGE TEXSTYLES
BOSTON, 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
eligibility 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 May 21, 2001, and filed by the Union of Needletrades,
Industrial, and Textile Employees AFL-CIO, CLC (UNITE!), New
England Joint Board on behalf of workers at Cutting Edge Texstyles,
Boston, Massachusetts. The workers at the subject firm produced
bias binding.


The investigation revealed that sales, production, and
employment at the subject firm declined absolutely during the
relevant period. The subject firm closed on April 27, 2001.
Furthermore, the investigation revealed that there were
substantial and increasing United States aggregate imports of bias
binding during the period under investigation.
A petition for eligibility to apply for NAFTA-Transitional
Adjustment Assistance has been filed by the Union of Needletrades,
Industrial, and Textile Employees AFL-CIO, CLC (UNITE!), New
England Joint Board on behalf of workers at the subject firm
(NAFTA-4909).
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I conclude that increases of imports of articles
like or directly competitive with those produced at the subject
firm 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 Cutting Edge Texstyles, Boston, Massachusetts,
engaged in employment related to the production of bias
binding who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after May 7, 2000, through two years from the
date of certification are eligible to apply for adjustment
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974."
Signed at Washington, D.C., this 12TH day of July, 2002.



_/S/Linda G. Poole____________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance