Analysis
NAICS 325320 is the 2022 national industry for pesticide and other agricultural chemical manufacturing, part of 32532 (Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing). Census lists 43 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 252 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 12,680 people at an average annual payroll of $91,004 per employee (79th percentile of national industries). 32% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 11% and employment rose 13%. 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 ant poisons manufacturing, arsenate insecticides manufacturing, arsenite insecticides manufacturing and benzene hexachloride (BHC) insecticides manufacturing, among 43 in all.
Its goods appear in 32 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3808 (insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 3251, 32531 and 327410. 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.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the formulation and preparation of agricultural and household pest control chemicals (except fertilizers).
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
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Index entries (43)
- Ant poisons manufacturing
- Arsenate insecticides manufacturing
- Arsenite insecticides manufacturing
- Benzene hexachloride (BHC) insecticides manufacturing
- Bordeaux mixture insecticides manufacturing
- Botanical insecticides manufacturing
- Chlordane insecticides manufacturing
- Cholinesterase inhibitors used as insecticides manufacturing
- DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) insecticides manufacturing
- Defoliants manufacturing
- Dips (i.e., pesticides), cattle and sheep, manufacturing
- Endrin insecticides manufacturing
- Exterminating chemical products (e.g., fungicides, insecticides, pesticides) manufacturing
- Flea powders or sprays manufacturing
- Fly sprays manufacturing
- Fungicides manufacturing
- Herbicides manufacturing
- Household-type insecticides manufacturing
- Insecticides manufacturing
- Lime-sulfur fungicides manufacturing
- Lindane pesticides manufacturing
- Malathion insecticides manufacturing
- Methoxychlor insecticides manufacturing
- Moth repellents manufacturing
- Nicotine insecticides manufacturing
- Organo-phosphate based insecticides manufacturing
- Parathion insecticides manufacturing
- Paris green insecticides manufacturing
- Pest (e.g., ant, rat, roach, rodent) control poison manufacturing
- Pesticides manufacturing
- Plant growth regulants manufacturing
- Pyrethrin insecticides manufacturing
- Roach poisons manufacturing
- Rodent poisons manufacturing
- Rodenticides manufacturing
- Root removing chemicals manufacturing
- Rotenone insecticides manufacturing
- Seed treatment preparations manufacturing
- Sodium arsenite insecticides manufacturing
- Sulfur insecticides manufacturing