Analysis
NAICS 332618 is the 2022 national industry for other fabricated wire product manufacturing, part of 33261 (Spring and Wire Product Manufacturing). Census lists 53 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 710 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 19,060 people at an average annual payroll of $61,958 per employee (37th percentile of national industries). 27% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
By establishments it ranks 1st of the 2 codes at this level within Spring and Wire Product Manufacturing, with 67.6% of them.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include automobile skid chains made from purchased wire, bale ties made from purchased wire, barbed wire made from purchased wire and baskets, metal, made from purchased wire, among 53 in all.
Its goods appear in 85 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 7314 (cloth (including endless bands), grill, netting and…), 7312 (stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the…) and 7315 (chain and parts thereof, of iron or steel). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 331, 332613 and 335929. 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.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing fabricated wire products (except springs) made from purchased wire.
Illustrative Examples:
Barbed wire made from purchased wire Chain link fencing and fence gates made from purchased wire Metal baskets made from purchased wire Paper clips made from purchased wire Nails, brads, and staples made from purchased wire Noninsulated wire cable made from purchased wire Woven wire cloth made from purchased wire
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
Index entries (53)
- Automobile skid chains made from purchased wire
- Bale ties made from purchased wire
- Barbed wire made from purchased wire
- Baskets, metal, made from purchased wire
- Belts, conveyor, made from purchased wire
- Belts, drying, made from purchased wire
- Brackets made from purchased wire
- Brads, metal, made from purchased wire
- Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire
- Cages made from purchased wire
- Can keys made from purchased wire
- Chain link fencing and fence gates made from purchased wire
- Chain made from purchased wire
- Chain, welded, made from purchased wire
- Chicken netting made from purchased wire
- Cloth, woven wire, made from purchased wire
- Coat hangers made from purchased wire
- Concrete reinforcing mesh made from purchased wire
- Crab traps made from purchased wire
- Cylinder wire cloth made from purchased wire
- Delivery cases made from purchased wire
- Diamond cloths made from purchased wire
- Fabrics, woven wire, made from purchased wire
- Fencing and fence gates made from purchased wire
- Fourdrinier wire cloth made from purchased wire
- Grilles and grillwork made from purchased wire
- Guards, wire, made from purchased wire
- Hardware cloth, woven wire, made from purchased wire
- Insect screening made from purchased wire
- Key rings made from purchased wire
- Lamp frames, wire, made from purchased wire
- Mats and matting made from purchased wire
- Mesh made from purchased wire
- Nails, brads, and staples made from purchased wire
- Netting, woven, made from purchased wire
- Paper clips made from purchased wire
- Paper machine wire cloth made from purchased wire
- Poultry netting made from purchased wire
- Racks, household-type, made from purchased wire
- Reinforcing mesh, concrete, made from purchased wire