Analysis
NAICS 311224 is the 2022 national industry for soybean and other oilseed processing, part of 31122 (Starch and Vegetable Fats and Oils Manufacturing). Census lists 27 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 190 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 10,887 people at an average annual payroll of $79,307 per employee (68th percentile of national industries). 22% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.
By establishments it ranks 1st of the 3 codes at this level within Starch and Vegetable Fats and Oils Manufacturing, with 51.5% of them.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include canola (rapeseed) oil, cake and meal, made in crushing mills, castor oil and pomace made in crushing mills, coconut oil made in crushing mills and cottonseed oil, cake and meal, made in crushing mills, among 27 in all.
Its goods appear in 74 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 1509 (olive oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but…), 1514 (rapeseed, colza or mustard oil, and fractions thereof…) and 1515 (other fixed vegetable or microbial fats and oils (including…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
For example, wet milling corn and other vegetables are classified in 311221 (Wet Corn Milling and Starch Manufacturing) instead.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in crushing oilseeds and tree nuts, such as soybeans, cottonseeds, linseeds, peanuts, and sunflower seeds. Examples of products produced in these establishments are oilseed oils, cakes, meals, and protein isolates and concentrates.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
Index entries (27)
- Canola (rapeseed) oil, cake and meal, made in crushing mills
- Castor oil and pomace made in crushing mills
- Coconut oil made in crushing mills
- Cottonseed oil, cake and meal, made in crushing mills
- Flaxseed oil made in crushing mills
- Lecithin, cottonseed, made in crushing mills
- Lecithin, soybean, made in crushing mills
- Linseed oil, cake and meal, made in crushing mills
- Olive oil made in crushing mills
- Palm-kernel oil, cake, and meal made in crushing mills
- Peanut cake, meal, and oil made in crushing mills
- Rapeseed (i.e., canola) oil made in crushing mills
- Safflower oil made in crushing mills
- Shortening made in crushing mills
- Soybean cakes and meal manufacturing
- Soybean flour and grits manufacturing
- Soybean millfeed made in oil mills
- Soybean oil mills
- Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in crushing mills
- Soybean oil, crude, manufacturing
- Soybean oil, deodorized, made in oil mills
- Soybean oil, refined, made in crushing mills
- Soybean protein concentrates made in crushing mills
- Soybean protein isolates made in crushing mills
- Sunflower seed oil, cake and meal, made in crushing mills
- Tree nut oils (e.g., tung, walnut) made in crushing mill
- Vegetable oils made in crushing mills