DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,469

KELLOGG CRANKCRAFTS
JACKSON, MICHIGAN

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
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 December 21, 2001, in
response to a petition filed by UAW on behalf of workers at
Kellogg Crankshaft, Jackson, Michigan. The workers produced
automobile crankshafts.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
U.S. imports of camshafts and crankshafts for use solely or
principally with spark-ignition internal-combustion piston or
rotary engines decreased in 2000 compared to 1999 and in January-
November 2001 compared to the same period in 2000.
Company imports of unfinished crankshafts were not like or
directly competitive with the finished crankshafts that the
subject firm produced.
The Department surveyed the major declining customer of
Kellogg Crankshaft regarding their purchases of machined
crankshafts during 1999, 2000 and January-October 2001. The
survey revealed that the respondent did not import during the
relevant period.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Kellogg Crankshaft, Jackson, Michigan are denied eligibility to
apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade
Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 12th day of April, 2002

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