DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,535

PHOENIX GOLD INTERNATIONAL, INC.
PORTLAND, OREGON

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 December 31, 2001 in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Phoenix Gold
International, Inc., Portland, Oregon. The workers produce circuit
boards for loud speakers.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.


The investigation revealed that the subject firm did not
import circuit boards for loud speakers during the relevant period.

A Department of Labor survey of several of the subject firm's
customers revealed no imports of circuit boards for loud speakers.
A petition for eligibility to apply for NAFTA-Transitional
Adjustment Assistance has been filed on behalf of workers at the
subject firm (NAFTA-5673).
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers at Phoenix
Gold International, Inc., Portland, Oregon engaged in employment
related to the production of circuit boards for loud speakers, are
denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section
223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 30th day of April, 2002.



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