THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

NAFTA-5218 AND TA-W-39,831
CHIPMAN UNION, INC.
UNION POINT, GEORGIA

TA-W-39,831A
CHIPMAN UNION, INC.
BRYAN SCOTT PLANT
GREENSBORO, GEORGIA

Notice of Revised Determination
On Reconsideration

By letter dated January 16, 2002, the company, requested
administrative reconsideration of the Department=s denial of
North American Free Trade Agreement-Transitional Adjustment
Assistance (NAFTA-TAA) and Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA),
applicable to workers of Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point,
Georgia. The denial notice applicable to NAFTA-05218 was signed
on December 17, 2001 and the denial notices for TA-W-39,831 and
TA-W-39,831A were signed on December 14, 2001. The notices were
published in the Federal Register on January 11, 2002, NAFTA-5218
(67 FR 1513); for TA-W-39,831 and TA-W-39,831A (67 FR 1508).
The workers of Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia
(NAFTA-5218) engaged in activities related to the production of
socks were denied NAFTA-TAA because criteria (3) and (4) of the
group eligibility requirements of paragraph (a)(1) of Section 250
of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, were not met. A survey of
customers indicated that increased imports from Canada or Mexico
did not contribute importantly to worker separations. The
subject firm did not import socks from Canada or Mexico during
the relevant period. There was no shift in the production of
socks from the subject firm to Canada or Mexico during the
relevant period.
The workers of Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia
(TA-W-39,831) and Chipman Union, Inc., Bryan Scott Plant,
Greensboro, Georgia (TA-W-39,831A) were denied TAA because
criterion (3) of the group eligibility requirements of Section
222 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, was not met. Imports
did not contribute importantly to the worker separations during
the relevant period.
The request for reconsideration indicates that the company
lost a license agreement, which accounted for a major portion of
their sales. The request further indicated that the company that
was awarded the new license, imported the socks.
The Department contacted the company which was awarded the
new license agreement and confirmed that the company that was
awarded the license began importing the socks from Canada to the
subject firm's domestic customers during the relevant period.
Conclusion
After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on
reconsideration, it is concluded that increased imports of socks,
including imports from Canada, contributed importantly to the
decline in production and to the total or partial separation of
workers at Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia (NAFTA-5218)
and Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia (TA-W-39,831) and
Chipman Union, Inc., Bryan Scott Plant, Greensboro, Georgia (TA-
W-39,831A). In accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make
the following revised determination:
AAll workers at Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia
(NAFTA-5218), who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after August 16, 2000, through two years
from the date of certification, are eligible to apply for
NAFTA-TAA under Section 250 of the Trade Act of 1974;" and

"All workers at Chipman Union, Inc., Union Point, Georgia
(TA-W-39,831) and Chipman Union, Inc., Bryan Scott Plant,
Greensboro, Georgia (TA-W-39,831A), who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after August 6,
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 4th day of April 2002.


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


DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,831

CHIPMAN UNION, INC.
UNION POINT, GEORGIA

TA-W-39,831A

CHIPMAN UNION, INC.
BRYAN SCOTT PLANT
GREENSBORO, GEORGIA

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 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 August 13, 2001 in response to a petition filed on
behalf of workers at Chipman Union, Union Point, Georgia and the Bryan Scott Plant,
Greensboro, Georgia. The workers produced socks.
The investigation revealed that criteria (3) has not been met. The Department of Labor
conducted a customer survey of the subject firm=s major customers. The survey disclosed that
there was no increase in customer imports of socks.
There is currently a NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance petition under
investigation for this worker group (NAFTA-5218).
Conclusion

After careful review, I determine that all workers of Chipman Union, Union Point and
Greensboro, Georgia are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 14th day of December, 2001.
/s/ Linda G. Poole
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LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance