332439

Analysis

NAICS 332439 is the 2022 national industry for other metal container manufacturing, part of 33243 (Metal Can, Box, and Other Metal Container (Light Gauge) Manufacturing). Census lists 24 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 252 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 10,127 people at an average annual payroll of $61,240 per employee (35th percentile of national industries). 29% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 13% 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.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 2 codes at this level within Metal Can, Box, and Other Metal Container (Light Gauge) Manufacturing, with 59.7% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include air cargo containers, light gauge metal, manufacturing, ammunition boxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing, barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturing and beer kegs, light gauge metal, manufacturing, among 24 in all.

Its goods appear in 12 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 7310 (tanks, casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers…), 9617 () and 7612 (aluminum casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.