DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-41,161
WHEELING-PITTSBURGH STEEL CORP.
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA

TA-W-41,161A
WHEELING-PITTSBURGH STEEL CORP.
BEECH BOTTOM, WEST VIRGINIA

TA-W-41,161B
WHEELING-PITTSBURGH STEEL CORP.
ALLENPORT, PENNSYLVANIA

TA-W-41,161C
WHEELING-PITTSBURGH STEEL CORP.
STEUBENVILLE, OHIO

TA-W-41,161D
WHEELING-PITTSBURGH STEEL CORP.
MARTINS FERRY, OHIO

TA-W-41,161E
WHEELING-PITTSBURGH STEEL CORP.
YORKVILLE, OHIO

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 jointly filed by a company official and
United Steelworkers of America, District 1, on behalf of workers
at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp., Wheeling and Beech Bottom,
West Virginia; Allenport, Pennsylvania; and Steubenville, Martins
Ferry, and Yorkville, Ohio. The workers are employed in
integrated steel production processes involving the production of
hot rolled sheet, cold rolled sheet and galvanized steel.
Workers at the subject firm were denied eligibility to apply
for Trade Adjustment Assistance on September 18, 2001 (TA-W-
39,015). That investigation found that customers of the subject
firm did not increase imports during the period of time when
purchases from the subject firm were decreasing.
This investigation also revealed that criterion (3) has not
been met.
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. does not import cold rolled
sheet steel, hot rolled sheet steel or galvanized steel.
Sales and production of the subject firm declined from 2000
to 2001, but employment increased in this period.
Sales and production at the subject firm increased in the
first quarter of 2002 compared with the same period on year
earlier.
United States aggregate imports of cold rolled carbon sheet
steel, and of hot rolled carbon sheet steel, declined both
absolutely and relative to domestic shipments in January through
April 2002 compared with the same period in 2001. Imports of sheet
and strip galvanized electrolytic carbon steel remained very low,
only 5.6 percent of shipments, in January through April of 2002.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp., Wheeling, West Virginia; Beech
Bottom, West Virginia; Allenport, Pennsylvania; Steubenville,
Ohio; Martins Ferry, Ohio; and Yorkville, Ohio, are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 17th day of July, 2002

/s/ Linda G. Poole

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