Analysis
NAICS 316110 is the 2022 national industry for leather and hide tanning and finishing, part of 31611 (Leather and Hide Tanning and Finishing). Census lists 63 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 152 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 2,884 people at an average annual payroll of $57,486 per employee (28th percentile of national industries). 47% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 13% 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 bag leather manufacturing, belting butts, curried or rough, manufacturing, belting leather, manufacturing and bookbinder's leather manufacturing, among 63 in all.
Its goods appear in 173 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 4107 (leather further prepared after tanning or crusting…), 4104 (tanned or crust hides and skins of bovine (including…) and 4302 (tanned or dressed furskins (including heads, tails, paws…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) tanning, currying, and finishing hides and skins; (2) having others process hides and skins on a contract basis; and (3) dyeing or dressing furs.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Index entries (63)
- Bag leather manufacturing
- Belting butts, curried or rough, manufacturing
- Belting leather, manufacturing
- Bookbinder's leather manufacturing
- Bridle leather manufacturing
- Buffings, russet, manufacturing
- Case leather manufacturing
- Chamois leather manufacturing
- Collar leather, manufacturing
- Coloring leather
- Converters, leather
- Currying furs
- Currying leather
- Cutting of leather
- Dressing (i.e., bleaching, blending, currying, scraping, tanning) furs
- Dressing hides
- Dyeing furs
- Dyeing leather
- Embossing leather
- Exotic leathers manufacturing
- Fancy leathers manufacturing
- Finishing hides and skins on a contract basis
- Finishing leather
- Fleshers, leather (i.e., flesh side of split leather), manufacturing
- Fur stripping
- Furs, dressed (e.g., bleached, curried, dyed, scraped, tanned), manufacturing
- Garment leather manufacturing
- Glove leather manufacturing
- Handbag leather manufacturing
- Harness leather manufacturing
- Hides and skins, finishing on a contract basis
- Hides, tanning, currying, dressing, and finishing
- Japanning of leather
- Lace leather manufacturing
- Latigo leather manufacturing
- Leather coloring, cutting, embossing, and japanning
- Leather converters
- Leather tanning, currying, and finishing
- Lining leather manufacturing
- Mechanical leather manufacturing