DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-41,751

GILBERT MANUFACTURING COMPANY
DIVISION OF LARSDALE, CORP.
SOUTH HILL, VIRGINIA

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 July 1, 2002 in response to
a petition filed on behalf of workers at Gilbert Manufacturing
Company, South Hill, Virginia. The workers produced under cabinet
lighting.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.


The subject firm did not import under cabinet lighting during
the relevant period.
The Department of Labor surveyed the subject firm's major
customers regarding their purchases of under cabinet lighting.
This survey did not reveal increases in imports of under cabinet
lighting during the period under investigation.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers at Gilbert
Manufacturing Company, South Hill, Virginia engaged in employment
related to the production of under cabinet lighting, are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of
the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 26th day of August, 2002.

/s/ Linda G. Poole

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