326220

Analysis

NAICS 326220 is the 2022 national industry for rubber and plastics hoses and belting manufacturing, part of 32622 (Rubber and Plastics Hoses and Belting Manufacturing). Census lists 18 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 275 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 20,288 people at an average annual payroll of $68,803 per employee (50th percentile of national industries). 25% 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 belting, rubber (e.g., conveyor, elevator, transmission)…, conveyor belts, rubber, manufacturing, fan belts, rubber or plastics, manufacturing and garden hose, rubber or plastics, manufacturing, among 18 in all.

Its goods appear in 58 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 4010 (conveyor or transmission belts or belting, of vulcanized…), 3917 (tubes, pipes and hoses and fittings therefor (for example…) and 4009 (tubes, pipes and hoses, of vulcanized rubber other than…). 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 326299, 326121, 326291 and 332912. 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 rubber tubing are classified in 326299 (All Other Rubber Product Manufacturing) instead.