3314

Analysis

NAICS 3314 is the 2022 industry group for nonferrous metal (except aluminum) production and processing, part of 331 (Primary Metal Manufacturing). Census lists 186 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 16% and employment fell 3%. 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.

County Business Patterns counts 709 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 55,915 people at an average annual payroll of $80,560 per employee (69th percentile of national industries). 21% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Across its national industries Census lists 186 index entries; typical ones are antimony refining, primary, aircraft and automotive wire or cable made from purchased…, aircraft and automotive wire and cable (except aluminum… and alloying purchased nonferrous metals (except aluminum….

Its goods appear in 279 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2620 (slag, ash and residues (other than from the manufacture of…), 7409 (copper plates, sheets and strip, of a thickness exceeding…) and 8112 (beryllium, chromium, hafnium, rhenium, thallium, cadmium…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

It splits into 3 more detailed codes. The largest by establishments is 33149 (Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, Extruding, and Alloying) with 386.