DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-41,842

BEE PAPER COMPANY
WAYNE, 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
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 22, 2002 in response
to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Bee Paper Company,
Wayne, New Jersey. Workers produced artists' paper.
A petition for NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance has
been filed on behalf of workers at the subject firm (NAFTA-6370).
This investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
Bee Paper Company has not imported artists' paper
competitive with that produced at the Wayne plant.
Although certain assets of the subject firm, including raw
materials and production equipment, were purchased and moved
abroad, production abroad for the United States market has not
occurred at this time.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Bee
Paper Company, Wayne, New Jersey are denied eligibility to apply
for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of
1974.
Signed at Washington, D.C., this 10th day of October 2002.

/s/ Richard Church

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RICHARD CHURCH
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance