325510

Analysis

NAICS 325510 is the 2022 national industry for paint and coating manufacturing, part of 32551 (Paint and Coating Manufacturing). Census lists 31 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 1,125 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 46,345 people at an average annual payroll of $74,924 per employee (62nd percentile of national industries). 28% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing, calcimines manufacturing, dispersions, pigment, manufacturing and dopes, paint, and lacquer manufacturing, among 31 in all.

Its goods appear in 15 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3814 (), 3207 (prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers and prepared colors…) and 3208 (paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based…). 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 325194, 325520 and 339940. 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.

For example, manufacturing creosote or turpentine are classified in 325194 (Cyclic Crude, Intermediate, and Gum and Wood Chemical Manufacturing) instead.