DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-41,898

MULTICRAFT TECHNOLOGY
A DIVISION OF MORGAN AUTO/CONSUMER GROUP
TYLERTOWN, MISSISSIPPI

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 29, 2002 in response
to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Multicraft Technology,
a Division of Morgan Auto/Consumer Group, Tylertown, Mississippi.
The workers produced electro-mechanical brush assemblies for the
automotive markets, exhaust solenoid valves, inflation valves,
cable assemblies, and wire leads. Workers at the subject firm are
not separately identifiable by product line.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.


The investigation revealed that the subject firm did not
import electro-mechanical brush assemblies for the automotive
markets, exhaust solenoid valves, inflation valves, cable
assemblies, and/or wire leads in 2000, 2001, or in January through
July 2001 and 2002.
The Department of Labor surveyed the subject firm's major
customers regarding their purchases of electro-mechanical brush
assemblies for the automotive markets, exhaust solenoid valves,
inflation valves, cable assemblies, and/or wire leads in the
relevant time period. This survey revealed no imports of electro-
mechanical brush assemblies for the automotive markets, exhaust
solenoid valves, inflation valves, cable assemblies, and wire leads
during the period under investigation.







Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers at
Multicraft Technology, a division of Morgan Auto/Consumer Group,
Tylertown, Mississippi engaged in employment related to the
production of electro-mechanical brush assemblies for the
automotive markets, exhaust solenoid valves, inflation valves,
cable assemblies, and wire leads, are denied eligibility to apply
for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of
1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 10th day of September, 2002.

/s/ Linda G. Poole

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