313230

Analysis

NAICS 313230 is the 2022 national industry for nonwoven fabric mills, part of 31323 (Nonwoven Fabric Mills). Census lists 19 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 227 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 16,687 people at an average annual payroll of $64,069 per employee (41st percentile of national industries). 12% 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 air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing, blankets, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing, bonded-fiber fabrics manufacturing and carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing, among 19 in all.

Its goods appear in 31 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 5603 (nonwovens, whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or…) and 5602 (felt, whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.