DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,463

ABB POWER T&D COMPANY
JEFFERSON CITY, 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 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 June 18, 2001 in response
to a petition filed on behalf of workers at ABB Power T&D Company,
Jefferson City, Missouri. Workers at the subject firm were
involved in employment related to the production of distribution-
transformers.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) was not met.
ABB Power T&D Co. did not import articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced at the subject firm.
The Department of Labor conducted a survey of the subject
firm's major customers regarding their purchases of distribution-
transformers. The survey revealed that none of the major declining
customers purchased distribution-transformers that were produced
abroad.
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-4975).
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of ABB
Power T&D Company, Jefferson City, Missouri, are denied eligibility
to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade
Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 17th day of July 2001.


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