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Analysis

NAICS 113210 is the 2022 national industry for forest nurseries and gathering of forest products, part of 11321 (Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products). Census lists 24 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 185 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 932 people at an average annual payroll of $61,586 per employee (36th percentile of national industries). 71% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which marks it as a small-business industry.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include aromatic wood gathering, balsam needles gathering, bark gathering and cherry gum, gathering, among 24 in all.

Its goods appear in 44 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 4001 (natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and…), 1301 (lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins (for…) and 1302 (vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 111998, 311999 and 113110. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.

For example, gathering tea and maple sap are classified in 111998 (All Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming) instead.