DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-41,970

DIMENSION TECH, INC.
IRONWOOD, MICHIGAN

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 eli-
gibility 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 sub-
division have decreased absolutely; and

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

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
received on August 19, 2002, filed on behalf of workers at
Dimension Tech, Inc., Ironwood, Michigan. The workers produced
basswood finger-jointed moulded pieces for picture frames.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm has not imported basswood finger-jointed
moulded pieces for picture frames.
The Department of Labor conducted a survey of major declining
customers of the subject firm regarding their purchases of basswood
finger-jointed moulded pieces for picture frames during 2000, 2001
and January through May 2002. That survey revealed that those
customers have not increased their imports of basswood finger-
jointed moulded pieces for picture frames during the relevant
period.
The largest customer of the subject firm was an off-shore
firm, a fact which precludes the possibility that foreign imports
could have been a factor in its decision to stop purchasing from
the subject firm.
A petition for NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance has
been filed on behalf of workers at the subject firm (NAFTA-6461).







Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Dimension Tech, Inc., Ironwood, Michigan, 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 November 2002.

/s/ Elliott S. Kushner
_____________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance