332312

Analysis

NAICS 332312 is the 2022 national industry for fabricated structural metal manufacturing, part of 33231 (Plate Work and Fabricated Structural Product Manufacturing). Census lists 23 example activities under it in the official index.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 3 codes at this level within Plate Work and Fabricated Structural Product Manufacturing, with 57% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 3,434 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 114,153 people at an average annual payroll of $73,161 per employee (58th percentile of national industries). 29% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Census lists 7 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 331110, 332321, 332322 and 23. 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 barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing, bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturing, boat sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing and bridge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing, among 23 in all.

Its goods appear in 9 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 7308 (structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading…), 8479 (machines and mechanical appliances having individual…) and 7610 (aluminum structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.