311613

Analysis

NAICS 311613 is the 2022 national industry for rendering and meat byproduct processing, part of 31161 (Animal Slaughtering and Processing). Census lists 14 example activities under it in the official index.

By establishments it ranks 4th of the 4 codes at this level within Animal Slaughtering and Processing, with 5.9% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 219 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 11,297 people at an average annual payroll of $73,362 per employee (58th percentile of national industries). 8% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include animal fats rendering, animal oil rendering, bones, fat, rendering and fats, animal, rendering, among 14 in all.

Its goods appear in 19 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 0511 (animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead…), 1501 (pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that…) and 0505 (skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, blending purchased animal fats with vegetable fats are classified in 311225 (Fats and Oils Refining and Blending) instead.