DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-41,093

GREENWOOD MILLS
DURST PLANT
GREENWOOD, SOUTH CAROLINA

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 March 18, 2002 and filed on behalf of workers at
Greenwood Mills Inc., Durst Plant, Greenwood, South Carolina. The
workers produced greige fabric for home furnishings and apparel.
The investigation revealed that the Durst plant in Greenwood,
South Carolina closed in December 2001.
The investigation revealed that U.S. imports of man-made fiber
sheeting fabric increased in the year ending February 2000 compared
to the year ending February 2001.
U.S. imports of unbleached sheeting, less than 85 percent by
weight of cotton, mixed mainly or solely with man-made fibers, less
than or equal to 200 g/m2, #42 or less increased in 2001 compared
to 2000 and in January-March 2002 compared to the same period in
2001.
The petitioner alleged that the subject mills' largest
customer of sheeting fabric discontinued its use of the subject
mill as a source of sheeting fabric and instead began procuring the
product from a foreign source.
The Department conducted a survey of major declining customers
of the subject mill in 2000 and 2001. The survey revealed that a
respondent which accounted for a major percentage of the subject
mill's sheeting sales in 2000 and in 2001 increased their purchases
of imported unfinished sheeting fabric relative to its purchases
from the subject firm while decreasing their purchases of
unfinished sheeting fabric from the subject firm in the relevant
period.
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 unfinished sheeting fabric produced at
Greenwood Mills Inc., Durst Plant, Greenwood, South Carolina
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 Greenwood Mills Inc., Durst Plant, Greenwood,
South Carolina, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after December 18, 2000, 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 20th day of June, 2002


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