NAICS 2022 · in 33221
332215
Metal Kitchen Cookware, Utensil, Cutlery, and Flatware (except Precious) Manufacturing
Analysis
NAICS 332215 is the 2022 national industry for metal kitchen cookware, utensil, cutlery, and flatware (except precious) manufacturing, part of 33221 (Cutlery and Handtool Manufacturing). Census lists 39 example activities under it in the official index.
By establishments it ranks 2nd of the 2 codes at this level within Cutlery and Handtool Manufacturing, with 20.9% of them.
County Business Patterns counts 205 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 6,704 people at an average annual payroll of $73,747 per employee (59th percentile of national industries). 59% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Census lists 6 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 339910, 335210, 333112 and 332216. 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.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include barber's scissors, manufacturing, blades, knife and razor, manufacturing, butcher's knives manufacturing and carving sets manufacturing, among 39 in all.
Its goods appear in 89 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8211 (knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including…), 8215 (spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives…) and 7323 (table, kitchen or other household articles and parts…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal kitchen cookware (except by casting (e.g., cast iron skillets) or stamped without further fabrication), utensils, and/or nonprecious and precious plated metal cutlery and flatware.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing precious (except precious plated) metal cutlery and flatware | 339910 Jewelry and Silverware Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing electric razors and hair clippers for use on humans | 335210 Small Electrical Appliance Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing power hedge shears and trimmers | 333112 Lawn and Garden Tractor and Home Lawn and Garden Equipment Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing nonelectric hair clippers for use on animals | 332216 Saw Blade and Handtool Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing finished cast iron kitchen utensils and cookware (i.e., cast iron skillets) and castings for kitchen utensils and cookware | 3315 Foundries |
| Manufacturing stampings for kitchen utensils, pots, and pans | 332119 Metal Crown, Closure, and Other Metal Stamping (except Automotive) |
Index entries (39)
- Barber's scissors, manufacturing
- Blades, knife and razor, manufacturing
- Butcher's knives manufacturing
- Carving sets manufacturing
- Cleavers manufacturing
- Clippers, fingernail and toenail, manufacturing
- Cooking utensils, fabricated metal, manufacturing
- Cookware, fabricated metal, manufacturing
- Cutlery, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing
- Enameled metal cutting utensils
- Fishing knives manufacturing
- Flatware, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing
- Forks, table, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing
- Hair clippers for human use, nonelectric, manufacturing
- Hunting knives manufacturing
- Kitchen cutlery, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing
- Kitchen utensils, fabricated metal (e.g., colanders, garlic presses, ice cream scoops, spatulas), manufacturing
- Knife blades manufacturing
- Knife blanks manufacturing
- Knives (e.g., hunting, pocket, table nonprecious, table precious plated) manufacturing
- Nonstick metal cooking utensils
- Plated metal cutlery manufacturing
- Plated metal flatware manufacturing
- Pocket knives manufacturing
- Potato mashers manufacturing
- Pots and pans, fabricated metal, manufacturing
- Pressure cookers, household-type, manufacturing
- Razor blades manufacturing
- Razors (except electric) manufacturing
- Safety razor blades manufacturing
- Safety razors manufacturing
- Scissors, nonelectric, manufacturing
- Shears, nonelectric, household-type (e.g., kitchen, barber, tailor) manufacturing
- Spoons, table, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing
- Straight razors manufacturing
- Swords, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing
- Table cutlery, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing
- Tailors' scissors, nonelectric, manufacturing
- Teakettles and coffee pots, fabricated metal (except electric, glass), manufacturing