Analysis
NAICS 311824 is the 2022 national industry for dry pasta, dough, and flour mixes manufacturing from purchased flour, part of 31182 (Cookie, Cracker, and Pasta Manufacturing). Census lists 23 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 390 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 24,501 people at an average annual payroll of $58,995 per employee (31st percentile of national industries). 22% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.
By establishments it ranks 2nd of the 2 codes at this level within Cookie, Cracker, and Pasta Manufacturing, with 45.8% of them.
Census lists 5 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 311211, 311991, 3114 and 311999. 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.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include batters, prepared, made from purchased flour, bread and bread-type roll mixes made from purchased flour, cake mixes made from purchased flour and cookie dough made from purchased flour, among 23 in all.
Its goods appear in 25 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 1901 (malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal…) and 1902 (pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing dry pasta and/or (2) manufacturing prepared flour mixes or dough from flour ground elsewhere. The establishments in this industry may package the dry pasta they manufacture with other ingredients.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Milling flour and preparing flour mixes or doughs | 311211 Flour Milling |
| Manufacturing fresh pasta | 311991 Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing pasta specialties | 3114 Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing |
| Mixing purchased dried and/or dehydrated ingredients with purchased dry pasta | 311999 All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing |
| Drying and/or dehydrating ingredients packaged with purchased dry pasta | 311423 Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing |
Index entries (23)
- Batters, prepared, made from purchased flour
- Bread and bread-type roll mixes made from purchased flour
- Cake mixes made from purchased flour
- Cookie dough made from purchased flour
- Doughs, refrigerated or frozen, made from purchased flour
- Dry mixes made from purchased flour
- Dry pasta manufacturing
- Dry pasta packaged with other ingredients made in dry pasta plants
- Egg noodles, dry, manufacturing
- Flour, blended or self-rising, made from purchased flour
- Frozen doughs made from purchased flour
- Macaroni, dry, manufacturing
- Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour
- Noodle mixes made in dry pasta plants
- Noodles, dry, manufacturing
- Pancake mixes made from purchased flour
- Pasta, dry, manufacturing
- Pastries, uncooked, manufacturing
- Pie crust shells, uncooked, made from purchased flour
- Pizza doughs made from purchased flour
- Prepared flour mixes made from purchased flour
- Refrigerated doughs made from purchased flour
- Spaghetti, dry, manufacturing