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Analysis

NAICS 327213 is the 2022 national industry for glass container manufacturing, part of 32721 (Glass and Glass Product Manufacturing). Census lists 8 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 75 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 14,452 people at an average annual payroll of $77,192 per employee (65th percentile of national industries). 20% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

By establishments it ranks 4th of the 4 codes at this level within Glass and Glass Product Manufacturing, with 4.9% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include beer bottles, glass, manufacturing, beverage containers, glass, manufacturing, bottles (i.e., bottling, canning, packaging), glass… and containers for packaging, bottling, and canning, glass…, among 8 in all.

Its goods appear in 26 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 7010 (carboys, bottles, flasks, jars, pots, vials, ampoules and…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 5% and employment rose 0%. 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.