DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,668

RAM FABRICATING CORPORATION
ATHENS, TENNESSEE

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 January 28, 2002 in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Ram
Fabricating Corporation, Athens, Tennessee. The workers are
engaged in employment related to the production of fabricated
steel fittings.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
Fabricated steel fittings are not being imported by the
subject firm. The Department surveyed the sole customer of the
subject firm regarding their purchases of fabricated steel
fittings during the period under investigation. The survey
revealed no import purchases of fabricated steel fittings during
the relevant period.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Ram
Fabricating Corporation, Athens, Tennessee, are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 17th day of June, 2002


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