DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
TA-W-39,601
MINNESOTA MINING & MANUFACTURING COMPANY
MICROFLEX DIVISION
COLUMBIA, 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
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:
(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 sepa-
rated;

(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 July 9, 2001, in response
to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Minnesota Mining &
Manufacturing Company, Microflex Division, Columbia, Missouri.
The workers are engaged in the production of microflex circuits,
electronic, connectors and fresnel.
The investigation revealed that criterion (1) has not been
met.
The subject firm did not experience a decrease in employment
during the period of the investigation.
A petition for NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance has
been filed on behalf of the same group of workers at the subject
firm, NAFTA-5022.
Conclusion

After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company, Microflex Division,
Columbia, Missouri are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 23rd day of May 2002.

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