DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,898

ST. CLAIR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN


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 on March 4, 2002, and filed
on behalf of workers at St. Clair Technologies, Inc., Charlotte,
Michigan. The workers produced wiring harnesses. The subject
firm closed permanently in September 2001.
The investigation revealed that sales, production and
employment ceased at the subject plant during the relevant
period.


The subject firm began supplying their United States
customers with wire harnesses produced in a foreign facility
during the period under investigation.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I conclude that increases of imports of articles
like or directly competitive to those produced at St. Clair
Technologies, Inc., Charlotte, Michigan, contributed importantly
to the decline in sales or production and to the total or partial
separation of workers of the subject firm. In accordance with
the provisions of the Act, I make the following certification:
"All workers of St. Clair Technologies, Inc., Charlotte,
Michigan, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after February 4, 2001, 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 18th day of March 2002


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