325613

Analysis

NAICS 325613 is the 2022 national industry for surface active agent manufacturing, part of 32561 (Soap and Cleaning Compound Manufacturing). Census lists 12 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 20% and employment rose 3%. 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.

County Business Patterns counts 106 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 6,174 people at an average annual payroll of $103,972 per employee (86th percentile of national industries). 20% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

By establishments it ranks 3rd of the 3 codes at this level within Soap and Cleaning Compound Manufacturing, with 7.5% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include assistants, textile and leather finishing, manufacturing, emulsifiers (i.e., surface active agents) manufacturing, finishing agents, textile and leather, manufacturing and mordants manufacturing, among 12 in all.

Its goods appear in 39 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3402 (organic surface-active agents (other than soap)…), 3403 (lubricating preparations (including cutting-oil…) and 3202 (synthetic organic tanning substances; inorganic tanning…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.