325312

Analysis

NAICS 325312 is the 2022 national industry for phosphatic fertilizer manufacturing, part of 32531 (Fertilizer and Compost Manufacturing). Census lists 8 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 79 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 6,248 people at an average annual payroll of $114,698 per employee (89th percentile of national industries). 11% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 14% and employment rose 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.

By establishments it ranks 3rd of the 3 codes at this level within Fertilizer and Compost Manufacturing, with 10.1% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include ammonium phosphates manufacturing, defluorinated phosphates manufacturing, diammonium phosphates manufacturing and fertilizers, mixed, made in plants producing phosphatic…, among 8 in all.

Its goods appear in 22 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3105 (mineral or chemical fertilizers containing two or three of…), 2809 (diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid;polyphosphoric…) and 3104 (mineral or chemical fertilizers, potassic). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.