DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-41,103

METSO MINERALS INDUSTRIES, INC.
CLINTONVILLE, WISCONSIN

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 25, 2002, in
response to a petition filed by PACE International, Region 10, on
behalf of workers at Metso Mineral Industries Inc., Clintonville,
Wisconsin. Workers were engaged in activities related to the
production of bulk material conveyors and portable crushing
plants used for aggregating sand and gravel. The workers are not
separately identifiable by product line.


The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
Portable crushing plants are not being imported either by
Metso Minerals, Inc., or by its customers from 1999 to 2001.

Currently, the workers are under an existing investigation
for NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance. The identifying
number is NAFTA-5893.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Metso
Mineral Industries Inc., Clintonville, Wisconsin, are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 16th day of May, 2002.

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