312230

Analysis

NAICS 312230 is the 2022 national industry for tobacco manufacturing, part of 31223 (Tobacco Manufacturing). Census lists 13 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 125 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 11,362 people at an average annual payroll of $87,197 per employee (75th percentile of national industries). 31% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 16% and employment fell 14%. The 2018 count used NAICS 2017, so part of a large move can come from codes being redefined rather than from businesses opening or closing.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include chewing tobacco manufacturing, cigar manufacturing, cigarettes manufacturing and imitation tobacco cigarettes, manufacturing, among 13 in all.

Its goods appear in 56 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2403 (other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco…), 2402 (cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or…) and 2404 (products containing tobacco, reconstituted tobacco…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

Census lists 4 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 339999, 325998, 424940 and 425120. 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.