DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,142

MERCURY MARINE
BRUNSWICK CORPORATION
FOND DU LAC, WISCONSIN

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 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. 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 September 28, 2001, and filed by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District #10 on behalf of all workers at Mercury Marine, Brunswick Corporation, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The workers produce outboard engines.
This investigation revealed that production and employment declined at the subject plant in the relevant period.
The Department of Labor conducted a survey of the subject firm's major customers regarding their purchases of outboard engines. The survey revealed that a major declining customer is increasing import purchases of outboard engines from foreign sources during the period under investigation.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the investi-gation, I conclude that increases of imports of articles like or directly competitive with outboard engines produced at Mercury Marine, Brunswick Corporation, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 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 Mercury Marine, Brunswick Corporation, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after September 10, 2000, through two years from the date of this certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974."

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 2nd day of January, 2002.
/s/ Linda G. Poole

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LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance