325910

Analysis

NAICS 325910 is the 2022 national industry for printing ink manufacturing, part of 32591 (Printing Ink Manufacturing). Census lists 15 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 306 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 9,170 people at an average annual payroll of $73,877 per employee (60th percentile of national industries). 29% 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 bronze printing inks manufacturing, duplicating inks manufacturing, flexographic inks manufacturing and gold printing inks manufacturing, among 15 in all.

Its goods appear in 22 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3215 (printing ink, writing or drawing ink and other inks…) and 8443 (printing machinery used for printing by means of plates…). 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 325998, 325992 and 423930. 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 writing, drawing, and stamping inks are classified in 325998 (All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing) instead.