DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-41,494

MANTUA INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED
WOODBURY HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY

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 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:
(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 subdi-
vision have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or appro-
priate subdivision have contributed importantly to the
separations, or threat thereof, and to the absolute
decline in sales or production.

The investigation was initiated on May 6, 2002 in response to
a petition filed on behalf of workers at Mantua Industries,
Woodbury Heights, New Jersey. The workers provided quality control,
repairs, packing and shipping in relation to the production of
model trains and small parts.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The company transferred assembly production of model trains
from the subject facility to a foreign facility in 1994. There was
not any manufacture of model trains by the company within the U.S.
in the relevant period.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Mantua
Industries, Woodbury Heights, New Jersey are denied eligibility to
apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act
of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 25th day of July, 2002

/s/ Edward A. Tomchick

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EDWARD A. TOMCHICK
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance