332722

Analysis

NAICS 332722 is the 2022 national industry for bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing, part of 33272 (Turned Product and Screw, Nut, and Bolt Manufacturing). Census lists 18 example activities under it in the official index.

By establishments it ranks 2nd of the 2 codes at this level within Turned Product and Screw, Nut, and Bolt Manufacturing, with 15.6% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 721 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 37,521 people at an average annual payroll of $70,712 per employee (53rd percentile of national industries). 20% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include bolts, metal, manufacturing, cotter pins, metal, manufacturing, dowel pins, metal, manufacturing and hook and eye latches, metal, manufacturing, among 18 in all.

Its goods appear in 65 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 7318 (screws, bolts, nuts, coach screws, screw hooks, rivets…), 7415 (nails, tacks, drawing pins, staples (other than those of…) and 7616 (other articles of aluminum). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, manufacturing precision turned products are classified in 332721 (Precision Turned Product Manufacturing) instead.