DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,679

EATON CORPORATION
POWERTRAIN AND SPECIALTY CONTROLS DIVISION
SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA

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 and former
workers at Eaton Corporation, Powertrain and Specialty Controls
Division, Sanford, North Carolina. The workers were engaged in
activities related to the production of right angle thermal
expansion valves and are separate from other worker groups at the
subject facility.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) was not met.
The investigation revealed that the subject firm did not
import like or directly competitive products during the relevant
period.
The U.S. Department of Labor conducted a survey of the
subject firm=s major customer(s) regarding their purchases of
right angle thermal expansion valves. The survey revealed that
none of the respondents increased their imports of right angle
thermal expansion valves and driers during the relevant period.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Eaton
Corporation, Powertrain and Specialty Controls Division,
Sanford, North Carolina, engaged in the production of right
angle thermal expansion valves are denied eligibility to apply
for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of
1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 25th day of March 2002.
/s/ Linda G. Poole
__________________________
EDWARD A. TOMCHICK
Director, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance