DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,034

D AND M TOOL, INC.
MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA


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 separat-
ed;

(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 September 17, 2001 in
response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of
all workers at D and M Tool, Inc., Meadville, Pennsylvania.
The workers are engaged in employment related to the produc-
tion of automated dies and machinery, spare parts, molds and
component parts.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The investigation revealed that the subject company does not
have any import purchases of automated dies and machinery, spare
parts, molds and component parts.
The Department of Labor conducted a survey of the subject
company's major customers regarding their purchases of automated
dies and machinery, spare parts, molds and component parts.
The survey revealed no increase in customer import purchases
of automated dies and machinery, spare parts, molds and component
parts during the period of sales and employment declines at the
subject company.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that workers of D and M
Tool, Inc., Meadville, Pennsylvania, are denied eligibility to
apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade
Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D.C. this 19th day February 2002.


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