DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
DOWN EAST WOODCRAFTERS
TA-W-40,807
SKOWHEGAN, MAINE

TA-W-40,807A
MADISON, MAINE

AND

TA-W-40,807B
BATH, MAINE

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 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. 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 February 11, 2002, and filed by a company official on
behalf of all workers at Down East Woodcrafters, Skowhegan and
Madison, Maine. At the request of the company official the
investigation expanded to cover the workers of the subject firm
in Bath, Maine. Workers were engaged in employment related to
the production of wood lathe, folding rulers and unfinished
furniture.
The investigation revealed that workers at the Skowhegan
plant produced lathe. The lathe are shipped to the Madison
location to be further manufactured into unfinished furniture or
shaped into rulers. Unfinished furniture was the primarily
output at the Madison plant. Workers at Down East Woodcrafters,
Bath, Maine, provide support services for both the Skowhegan and
Madison, Maine plants.
This investigation revealed that production and employment
declined at the subject plants in the relevant period.
The Department of Labor conducted a survey of the subject
firm's major customer regarding its purchases of unfinished
furniture. The survey revealed that the major customer increased
its import purchases of unfinished furniture while reducing
purchases from Down East Woodcrafters.
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 wood lathe and unfinished furniture
produced at Down East Woodcrafters, Madison, Maine 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 Down East Woodcrafters, Skowhegan, Maine
(TA-W-40,807), Madison, Maine (TA-W-40,807A), and Bath,
Maine (TA-W-40,807B), who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after January 9, 2001,
through two years from the date of this certification, are
eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Section
223 of the Trade Act of 1974."

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 22nd day of April, 2002.
/s/ Linda G. Poole

______________________________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance