312112

Analysis

NAICS 312112 is the 2022 national industry for bottled water manufacturing, part of 31211 (Soft Drink and Ice Manufacturing). Census lists 4 example activities under it in the official index.

By establishments it ranks 3rd of the 3 codes at this level within Soft Drink and Ice Manufacturing, with 21.7% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 288 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 12,598 people at an average annual payroll of $67,026 per employee (47th percentile of national industries). 33% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing, naturally carbonated water, purifying and bottling, spring waters, purifying and bottling and water, naturally carbonated, purifying and bottling.

Its goods appear in 1 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2201 (waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, manufacturing artificially carbonated or flavored waters are classified in 312111 (Soft Drink Manufacturing) instead.