326113

Analysis

NAICS 326113 is the 2022 national industry for unlaminated plastics film and sheet (except packaging) manufacturing, part of 32611 (Plastics Packaging Materials and Unlaminated Film and Sheet Manufacturing). Census lists 11 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 18% and employment fell 2%. 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 418 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 34,245 people at an average annual payroll of $74,456 per employee (61st percentile of national industries). 16% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include acrylic film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging)…, cellulosic plastics film and unlaminated sheet (except…, film, plastics (except packaging), manufacturing and photographic, micrographic, and X-ray plastics, sheet, and…, among 11 in all.

Its goods appear in 58 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3920 (other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics…) and 3921 (other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

Census lists 4 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 326112, 326130, 322220 and 326111. 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.