DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,568

CARLISLE ENGINEERED PRODUCTS
ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA

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
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. 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 January 14, 2001 and filed by United International
Union of Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Workers of America,
Local 1896, on behalf of workers at Carlisle Engineered Products,
Erie, Pennsylvania. The workers produced engine-cooling components.
The investigation revealed U.S. imports of parts and
accessories, not elsewhere or otherwise indicated, of vehicles of
8701, not elsewhere or otherwise indicated, and 8702-8705 increased
in 2000 compared to 1999.
The Department conducted a survey of the major declining
customers of the subject plants' regarding their purchases of bare
wire in 1999, 2000 and January-September 2001. The survey revealed
that a respondent accounting for a very significant percentage of
the subject plant's decline in sales in January-September 2001
compared to the same period in 2000 increased its purchases of
engine cooling components both absolutely and relative to subject
firm purchases from foreign countries while decreasing purchases
from the subject firm in January-September 2001 compared to the
same period in 2000.
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 engine cooling components produced at
Carlisle Engineered Products, Erie, Pennsylvania 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 Carlisle Engineered Products, Erie,
Pennsylvania who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after October 25, 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 in Washington, D. C. this 29th day of January, 2002


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