32612

Analysis

NAICS 32612 is the 2022 NAICS industry for plastics pipe, pipe fitting, and unlaminated profile shape manufacturing, part of 3261 (Plastics Product Manufacturing). Census lists 10 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 822 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 44,297 people at an average annual payroll of $65,654 per employee (44th percentile of national industries). 16% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Across its national industries Census lists 10 index entries; typical ones are casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing and fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing.

Its goods appear in 15 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3917 (tubes, pipes and hoses and fittings therefor (for example…) and 3916 (monofilament of which any cross-sectional dimension exceeds…). 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 32622, 33593, 32619 and 32611. 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.

It splits into 2 more detailed codes. The largest by establishments is 326122 (Plastics Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing) with 487.