Analysis
NAICS 325612 is the 2022 national industry for polish and other sanitation good manufacturing, part of 32561 (Soap and Cleaning Compound Manufacturing). Census lists 44 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 455 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 17,230 people at an average annual payroll of $78,887 per employee (67th percentile of national industries). 35% 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 air fresheners manufacturing, ammonia, household-type, manufacturing, automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing and beeswax polishes and waxes manufacturing, among 44 in all.
Its goods appear in 15 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3808 (insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides…), 3404 (artificial waxes and prepared waxes) and 3405 (polishes and creams, for footwear, furniture, floors…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
For example, manufacturing chlorine dioxide (i.e., industrial bleaching agent) are classified in 325180 (Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing) instead.
Census lists 2 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 325180 and 325199. 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 U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing and packaging polishes and specialty cleaning preparations.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
Index entries (44)
- Air fresheners manufacturing
- Ammonia, household-type, manufacturing
- Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing
- Beeswax polishes and waxes manufacturing
- Bleaches, formulated for household use, manufacturing
- Brass polishes manufacturing
- Buffing compounds manufacturing
- Cloths, dusting and polishing, chemically treated, manufacturing
- Copper cleaners manufacturing
- Degreasing preparations, household-type, manufacturing
- Deodorants (except personal) manufacturing
- Disinfectants, household-type and industrial, manufacturing
- Drain pipe cleaners manufacturing
- Drycleaning preparations manufacturing
- Fabric softeners manufacturing
- Floor polishes and waxes manufacturing
- Furniture polishes and waxes manufacturing
- Glass and tile cleaning preparations manufacturing
- Gun cleaning preparations
- Ink eradicators manufacturing
- Kitchen degreasing and cleaning preparations manufacturing
- Laundry bluing manufacturing
- Lye, household-type, manufacturing
- Metal polishes (i.e., tarnish removers) manufacturing
- Oven cleaners manufacturing
- Polishes (e.g., automobile, furniture, metal, shoe) manufacturing
- Polishing preparations manufacturing
- Recycling drycleaning fluids
- Rug cleaning preparations manufacturing
- Rust removers manufacturing
- Saddle soaps manufacturing
- Shoe polishes and cleaners manufacturing
- Silver polishes manufacturing
- Soot removing chemicals manufacturing
- Spot removers (except laundry presoaks) manufacturing
- Starches, laundry, manufacturing
- Sweeping compounds, absorbent, manufacturing
- Toilet bowl cleaners manufacturing
- Tub and tile cleaning preparations manufacturing
- Wallpaper cleaners manufacturing