326122

Analysis

NAICS 326122 is the 2022 national industry for plastics pipe and pipe fitting manufacturing, part of 32612 (Plastics Pipe, Pipe Fitting, and Unlaminated Profile Shape Manufacturing). Census lists 5 example activities under it in the official index.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 2 codes at this level within Plastics Pipe, Pipe Fitting, and Unlaminated Profile Shape Manufacturing, with 59.2% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 487 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 25,348 people at an average annual payroll of $65,543 per employee (44th percentile of national industries). 17% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 10% and employment rose 13%. 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.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing, fittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing, pipe fittings, rigid plastics, manufacturing and pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing, among 5 in all.

Its goods appear in 7 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3917 (tubes, pipes and hoses and fittings therefor (for example…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.