331222

Analysis

NAICS 331222 is the 2022 national industry for steel wire drawing, part of 33122 (Rolling and Drawing of Purchased Steel). Census lists 24 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 18% and employment fell 4%. 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.

By establishments it ranks 2nd of the 2 codes at this level within Rolling and Drawing of Purchased Steel, with 44.8% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 198 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 14,260 people at an average annual payroll of $64,377 per employee (42nd percentile of national industries). 13% 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 barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants, baskets, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants, brads, iron or steel, wire or cut, made in wire drawing… and cable, iron or steel, insulated or armored, made in wire…, among 24 in all.

Its goods appear in 93 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 7217 (wire of iron or nonalloy steel), 7317 () and 7229 (wire of other alloy steel). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.