DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,894

DETROIT TOOL & ENGINEERING CO.
LEBANON, MISSOURI

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 March 4, 2002 in response
to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Detroit Tool &
Engineering Co., Lebanon, Missouri. The workers produce automated
manufacturing machines.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.


The petitioners stated that imports of finished articles such
as appliances and televisions contributed to worker layoffs at
Detroit Tool & Engineering Co., Lebanon, Missouri.
The Department is required to determine import impact of
articles like or directly competitive with those produced at the
workers' firm. In this case, the subject firm workers produced
automated manufacturing machinery.
The investigation revealed that the subject firm and its
customers did not import automated manufacturing machinery in 2000
or 2001.
A major customer of the subject firm decided to put its order
for machinery on hold, contributing to worker layoffs at the plant.
A petition for eligibility to apply for NAFTA-Transitional
Adjustment Assistance has been filed on behalf of workers at the
subject firm (NAFTA-5578).



Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers at Detroit
Tool & Engineering Co., Lebanon, Missouri engaged in employment
related to the production of automated manufacturing machinery, are
denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section
223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 15th day of May, 2002.


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